Notebook of a Digital Naturalist

Every scientist keeps a personal journal, and in this I am no different. My day job is Resident Director of a biological field station called the James Reserve, sort of a bed and breakfast for biologists.

What is a digital naturalist? My earliest memories merge images of catching snakes longer than I was tall, and discovering that my father's soldering iron could deliver a painful burn to a curious child.

Reading about MIT's groundbreaking interactive video project on a flight back to Cornell plants the seed for what would become a lifetime pursuit of electronic nature education.

The pile of cut and stacked logs towered thirty feet over our heads as my colleagues and I diligently counted the minuscule rings. Two hundred and fifty rings—more than qualifying this stand as an Old Growth Forest.

Thirty-year population trend data for eleven old growth dependent bird species breeding in the Black Mountain Scenic Area of the San Jacinto Mountains.