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2022 autumn Tag birds
Bird migration season. The bird watching station needs all the help they can get to tag the incoming birds so that they can be tracked. I wanted to try it because it seemed really interesting. I had to go to the bird station early in the morning on the weekends to volunteer for this task. …
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2022 March to July monitoring the egrets during breeding season
In a poem about the egrets, the egret’s combination of pigments, size of its body, and everything about the egret is described in minute detail. The poem goes, “The egret has begun to prepare for hatching, flying in and out to build a nest with grass. When the wind blows, its feathers resemble a wedding…
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2022 Autumn Improving the Habitats of Snow Plovers and Terns
Today, I headed to the dry salt lake where I worked for 3 hours. Terns and snow plovers breed at the salt lake during the middle of May. We clean their habitats before they come and remove objects like garbage and posts. Posts are used by predators, who like to perch on them and wait…
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My First Connection with the Natural Environment: Rowing Los Gatos Reservoir – My first exposure to a pristine environment The environment has always been something that interested me. It started with my days on the rowing team, where I’d travel to the Los Gatos Reservoir to attend rowing practice. I started rowing in the summer…
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2022 summer research with ecologist (part 2)
Tributary of Corte Madera Creek Watershed: This map was made using a digital elevation model developed from LiDAR (light detection and ranging). Streamstats, a website made by USGS, generates a flow accumulation analysis to determine how water runs off across the landscape. By selecting a lowermost point within the tributary of Corte Madera Creek, Streamstats…
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2022 summer research with ecologist(part 1)
Habitats in the Santa Cruz Mountains Region, California Introduction: Natural habitats are vital to animals, plants, and ecosystem functions important to society. These habitats that contain their own individual microcosm are just a minute’s drive away from each other. The San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains Region contain many unique habitats that support…
Matthew lives in nature 