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Jewel Bugs

Posted on December 26, 2023 by susanoliver

I found these beautiful metallic jewel bugs (Scutifora pedicellata) while out walking. A nice find on a day when there was a lot to see.

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Ocean beach walking: exploring ecologies between Harmers Haven and Cutlers Beach, Bass Coast, Australia.

Posted on December 17, 2023 by susanoliver

I respectfully acknowledge the Yallock-Bulluk people of the Bunurong nation who are the traditional custodians of the Country in which I walked and am writing about here. I pay my respects to their elders past and present, knowing the stories … Continue reading →

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Sharing Andrew MacAllister’s ‘Looking at the West’ blogpost on phone towers in the landscape – click link below. I have the privilege of going to Brigham Young University tomorrow for a conference and workshop.

Posted on March 28, 2018 by susanoliver

via Brigham City cell towers

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New Film on Climate Change in the Caribbean: 1.5 Stay Alive

Posted on December 3, 2017 by susanoliver

1.5 – Stay Alive . . . A new film that brings together climate science and music from the Caribbean. I’m grateful to Lisa Paravisini Gebert and her Repeating Islands blog for bringing it to my attention.

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U. of Puerto Rico Is Closed as Hurricane Maria Wreaks Destruction

Posted on September 25, 2017 by susanoliver

Thinking of our academic colleagues in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. đź’š

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Snow Story

Posted on February 12, 2017 by susanoliver

I have to share a video (see below for YouTube link): please watch billy barr’s deeply moving short story of snow. It’s a Gothic tale of a man living in a cabin in the woods, in winter – all those … Continue reading →

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More Ice Thoughts: After the Polls, What’s Next for the Poles?

Posted on November 19, 2016 by susanoliver

Sharing this article, “Amid higher global temperatures, sea ice at record lows at poles,” by Brandon Miller, CNN meteorologist (19 November 2016) http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/18/world/sea-ice-arctic-antarctic-lows/index.html

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Plants and Antibiotics: some thoughts on reading the NY Times article “Could Ancient Remedies Hold the Answer to the Looming Antibiotics Crisis?”

Posted on September 18, 2016 by susanoliver

PLANTS AND ANTIBIOTICS Rabbitbrush. (My photograph) The article below about the antiseptic and antibiotic properties of plants is from the New York Times Magazine. I decided to post it because, as you know from my writing, I’m deeply interested in … Continue reading →

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Seeing beyond the Sandhill Cranes: a trip from Eastern Wyoming into Nebraska.

Posted on June 5, 2016 by susanoliver

A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place . . . . The cranes stand, as it were, upon the sodden pages of their own history. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). On … Continue reading →

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Wild flower meadow at Abbotsford. More soon. . .

Posted on July 22, 2015 by susanoliver

   Walking Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford estate this afternoon with ranger Philip Munro. Wild flowers and grasses in profusion. Blogpost to follow soon. . . 

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