Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Perryvale










One of my fellow graduate students, Graham, worked on a side project this summer looking at competition for nitrogen between different plant species in a bog. I helped with the set-up and the fertilizations throughout the summer so I was at this site a good amount - it was really beautiful!

SYNCRUDE


















Driving past a Syncrude oil sands refinery one day... what a wasteland. Ugh.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

An Attempt To Share This Existence With You

A few people that I'm working with just got back from Jasper in the Canadian Rockies and spent an hour or more showing us photos they took of the beautiful mountains, glaciers, and hot springs they just had the opportunity to enjoy. Although their photos were nice to look at I couldn't help but feel a tinge of jealousy that they had enough time off from their work to make the trip, and I actually couldn't enjoy looking at them all that much because of this. I started having second thoughts about putting my photos up on here, but then I figured if you didn't want to see them then you didn't have to look at this website. I'm doing this for those of you who are curious as to what I'm up to & maybe want to learn a bit about the flora that surrounds me. I'm certainly no blogger, which you've probably figured out since my last post was months ago. I also have a hard time finding the words to describe my experiences here. But I'll try! Here's an attempt to share this existence with you.