Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23

With about 1in of rain today (still falling), fall rains are getting started. Good news for spawning salmon after 3 very dry months. # Going to stop by the river with Connor and Rowan to see the pink salmon that moved up with the increased flow from the 4+ in of recent rain. # Looking … Read more

Night Migration

I have read about observing bird migration via weather radar, and thought it might be interesting to see what showed up on the Doppler Radar station located on Biorka Island. The animated .gif shown above is color-coded by the velocity of objects the radar ‘sees’ relative to the radar station. Green indicates objects travelling towards … Read more

Last Day at Rezanof Lake

Yesterday’s late return after a strenuous outing, plus the arrival of rain left us feeling much less motivated on our last full day at Rezanof Lake. Plus we needed to process and pack collections from the prior days. We did have one objective away from camp. Kitty needed to collect some samples of yellow cedar … Read more