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Fractals and Flow

Written on: November 19th, 2018 in Education & Outreach, Guest Blog, St. Jones Reserve

Outdoors, patterns abound. One need not be a mathematician in order to view and appreciate them. The widening whorls of seeds in a sunflower head are often used to illustrate the Fibonacci sequence of numbers (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8….) in which each figure is the sum of the two preceding digits. Other […]

Yay! Fishies Again!

Written on: May 8th, 2018 in Education & Outreach, Guest Blog, St Jones Events and Programs, St. Jones Reserve

DNERR always offers something unexpected, and recently, one needed only to look overhead to see it. In the lab at the St. Jones Reserve, dual clotheslines were strung with, no, not freshly laundered lab jackets or drip-drying dip-nets, but damp sheets of colorfully daubed paper. The sheets overflowed onto many of the nearby horizontal surfaces. Though I […]

Dancing with Horseshoe Crabs, Under the Stars

Written on: March 27th, 2018 in Education & Outreach, Guest Blog, Research, Volunteers

Do you recall the mention, in this blog, of the “poetry in Horseshoe Crabs”? (If not, just keyword-search “poetry” on this page.) Now is your chance to prepare for experiencing that poetry for yourself, when “dancing” with the crabs during a real-life beach “party” in support of a good cause: DNERR’s annual Horseshoe Crab Spawning […]

Bon Voyage 2 Johanna! Good Luck 2 Her!

Written on: December 14th, 2017 in Guest Blog, Volunteers

To add variety to the blog and to offer a fresh perspective from our visitors, we are inviting guest bloggers to write posts describing their visits and thoughts while at the Reserve. This guest blog is from M.L. Christmas and her send off to Johanna Hripto our Assistant Education Coordinator who has headed off to bigger and better things. […]

You’re a Skink (I Think)

Written on: September 27th, 2017 in Guest Blog, NERR, St. Jones Reserve

To add variety to the blog and to offer a fresh perspective from our visitors, we are inviting guest bloggers to write posts describing their visits and thoughts while at the Reserve. This guest blog is Part II from M.L. Christmas about her recent adventure while on a visit to St. Jones. Enjoy! (Johanna Hripto, DNERR Assistant Education […]