http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Thu, 23 May 2013 21:18:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/17/finally-some-true-turkish-delight-discovery-of-some-tasty-oaks/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/17/finally-some-true-turkish-delight-discovery-of-some-tasty-oaks/#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:53:32 +0000 Neil Pederson http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=28096 After a few days of mild frustration, the sampling of potentially old umbrella pine lifted our spirits and put us in a good frame of mind to conduct our last day of research in the temperate rainforest region of northeastern Turkey. We headed out of Borçka and met with a forest officer in charge of forests [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/06/17/finally-some-true-turkish-delight-discovery-of-some-tasty-oaks/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/18/charismatic-megaflora-what-do-old-trees-look-like/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/18/charismatic-megaflora-what-do-old-trees-look-like/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:01:04 +0000 Neil Pederson http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=24105 Charismatic megaflora? What kind of a tree might that be? As with many things, one person's charismatic megaflora is another person's tree. For myself, a tree that would draw and hold my attention as a younger person/student is very different than my current definition of a charismatic tree. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/18/charismatic-megaflora-what-do-old-trees-look-like/feed/ 4