Penobscot Experimental Forest Temperature: 81 ° F Humidity: 100% Wind: 4 mph Foggy/Cloudy/light misting rain Dr. Jon Ranson: It’s amazing how different each day is, here in the North Woods. Early this morning there was this little mist falling. Everything was kind of soft and mysterious. Then the rain stopped and it turned awfully humid with no wind […]
Penobscot Experimental Forest, Baxter, ME Temperature: 82 ° F Humidity: 68% Wind: 2 mph SW Sunny From Dr. Ranson: Something has been puzzling me the last few days. We’ve been out in these woods all day every day, but we’re just not seeing much wildlife. This is the wild North Woods, home to moose and […]
Penobscot Experimental Forest, Bradley ME Temp: 88 °F Humidity 65% Wind: 14 mph WSW Partly Cloudy From Dr. Jon Ranson: Today we worked hard at Penobscot, finishing the plot we started yesterday and then we laid out and measured another entire one-hectare plot. I hear they made good progress in Howland, too. So we’re on track […]
Penobscot Experimental Forest Temp: 91 °F (record 92 °F, 1987; average 78 °F) Humidity: 51 % Wind Speed 14 MPH Partly Cloudy From Dr. Jon Ranson: I’m a tired puppy right now. We started early today and put in a long, long day. We got a lot of measurements done. It’s delightful to be here […]
Penobscot Experimental Forest, Bradley ME Temperature: 89 ° F Humidity: 73% Wind: Calm Hazy, hot and humid From Dr. Jon Ranson: Greetings from Maine! The North Woods are fabulous as always and I’m excited to be here again. I’ve been coming to Maine for field work since 1989 so when I see these forests, it’s […]
Biographies Dr. Jon Ranson is an earth scientist specializing in radar, lidar and remote sensing. He uses these tools for studying vegetation type and biomass in ecosystem research. He is NASA Goddard Space Flight Center DESDynI Lidar Project Scientist and Head of the NASA GFSC Biospheric Sciences Branch in Greenbelt, Maryland. Under his guidance the […]
To many, Maine evokes images of rugged coastlines, bold light houses and bright red, buttered lobster. The draw of the water is so strong that the Maine Office of Tourism’s website currently sports all coastal photographs. Their sole image of the woods is only a backdrop to white water rafting. Despite the beauty of the summer […]
In thinking back over the past two weeks here in Galapagos and going over the nearly 1,300 photographs that I have taken, I wanted to select a few that while perhaps not the best pictures in an artistic sense, are the best at capturing the things that have touched me the most and that will […]
Thinking back on all of the things that have led up to my Journey to Galapagos, I would have never realized the impact that a simple one line e-mail would have. It all started with this note that I sent to Stuart Banks on the morning of 13 April 2009: To: Stuart Banks From: gene […]
(May I Please Borrow a Cup of Sugar — and your Internet Connection?) NOTE: This was the journal that I was in the process of writing when I learned that I might have a chance to connect to the internet from the Galapagos National Park Service outpost just south of Beagle Crater so I hastily […]
