http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:56:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/21/dipping-your-feet-in-the-water-a-first-years-experience-with-fieldwork/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/21/dipping-your-feet-in-the-water-a-first-years-experience-with-fieldwork/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:07:48 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=30765 My feet are soaking wet and I’m playing a game of Marco Polo, but I’m nowhere near a pool. It’s my second day on the job. It’s my second week of college. I have no idea what to expect.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/09/21/dipping-your-feet-in-the-water-a-first-years-experience-with-fieldwork/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/05/maybe-not-the-turkey-you-imagine/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/05/maybe-not-the-turkey-you-imagine/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 19:10:26 +0000 Neil Pederson http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=26100 Despite reading about these temperate rainforests, this is not the Turkey I imagined. This might not be the Turkey most people imagine. I’m really not sure what you envision when you think about Turkey. A dry, open landscape? That is what I thought.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/05/maybe-not-the-turkey-you-imagine/feed/ 5 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/10/around-the-broadleaf-world-in-180-days/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/10/around-the-broadleaf-world-in-180-days/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:49:46 +0000 Neil Pederson http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=24984 I have been very fortunate lately. In the last 6 months I visited forests I have longed dreamed about and visited forests I had never dreamed of before. I have been so fortunate that it is hard to believe. And, it is only going to get better in the next two weeks. Early in my [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/10/around-the-broadleaf-world-in-180-days/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/ 5 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/08/a-colorful-home-for-trees-one-of-its-most-colorful-figures/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/08/a-colorful-home-for-trees-one-of-its-most-colorful-figures/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:19:52 +0000 Neil Pederson http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=20684 There was a nice article in the NY Times on the Adirondack State Park whose title initially focused readers on how climate change could alter the park’s ecosystems. However, by the time you get to the end of the article, and luckily for us, you get to know Jerry Jenkins, one of the best naturalists [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/08/a-colorful-home-for-trees-one-of-its-most-colorful-figures/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/29/confessions-from-a-former-coniferphile/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/29/confessions-from-a-former-coniferphile/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:01:54 +0000 Neil Pederson http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=20097 The first time I felt truly fanatical about coniferous trees was while walking among the great eastern white pine trees in the Adirondack State Park as an undergraduate research assistant and student.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/29/confessions-from-a-former-coniferphile/feed/ 6