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Category: Adventure and Field Research

A new use for mosquito nets: Improvised histology cassettes

February 25, 2016 admin

Mosquito nets are good for more than catching fish and keeping the bugs out. They make excellent bridal veils and,…

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Posted in: Adventure and Field Research, Botswana

Seeing a Leopard!

February 22, 2016 admin

At dusk, we saw a leopard! We paused our car to navigate a particularly deep ridge in the sand and…

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Into the Delta

February 14, 2016 admin

This week, I accompanied staff from the Okavango Research Institute on a water run to ORI’s field station on Chief’s…

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Posted in: Adventure and Field Research, Botswana

Rain comes to the Delta

February 9, 2016 admin

When it rains in Africa, it usually pours in buckets with rolling thunder and lightning. Sometimes it rolls through fast.…

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Posted in: Adventure and Field Research, Botswana, Ecology, Living in Maun

Interdisciplinary Irony

February 8, 2016 admin

I am an academic and academics are always looking for ways to fund their research and outreach. Our bread-and-butter employment…

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First field work – Lake Ngami

January 27, 2016 admin

Last week, I got to do my first field work in the wilds of Botswana. I am working with a…

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Puff adders

January 26, 2016 admin

One of my colleagues caught a puff adder outside the herbarium at work yesterday. What’s a puff adder you might…

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Water in a land of drought

January 23, 2016 admin

The rain is two months late. In Tennessee, where I live, we always have rain. No one thinks about it.…

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