Bird vs. Fish

Slide Mountain

I did a “bucket list” hike to the summit of Slide Mountain today! I took the path up here and took the Curtis-Ormsbee Trail back. I haven’t done a mountain hike in years, so it was tough! It was a good encouragement to get back into peak (pun intended) hiking shape to explore more of […]

NJ Mapping

I had to make a leaflet map for a work project with sensitive data, and as the backdrop I used the following layers:

The Legacy of Changed Marshes: references

Thank you for reading my latest article in Cape May magazine! Here are my sources, along with some corrections… Corrections This doesn’t incorporate Delaware Bay marshes, so I’m not sure how that would adjust the estimate barring re-finding the previous rough estimate. But, it’s possible that the extent of ditching is closer to 40%. References […]

Female Bird Weekend

Happy Memorial Day! This weekend, the Galbatrosses celebrated Female Bird Day, and this galbatross in particular spent a good chunk of the weekend looking for female birds and posting short videos of them w/ID tips to my Instagram story. Species in which I was able to find the female: Some reflections…

Godwit Days

Today my mom and I are headed to this fest in CA! I’m writing this post after the fact as a reminder for what I packed and could have used, since I may well do this festival again 🙂 Honestly this festival was pretty easy to pack for, as the weather was about the same […]

Best Birds of 2026 – running list

I’m kicking off my annual best birds list, to be fleshed out at the end of the year!

A Rich Local History of Palynology: References

Thank you for reading my article: https://capemaymag.com/this-is-cape-may/nature/the-rich-local-history-of-palynology In keeping with the format of articles for the nature column of Cape May Magazine, we don’t have room for in-text citations or a reference section. So, for those who would like to consult the sources or enjoy further reading, here is the material I referenced for writing […]

Best Birds of 2025

Here were my best birds of the year! I haven’t yet fleshed out the stories here; check back later.

Creating A Vector Layer By Hand

I had been given some PDF maps with outlines to digitize, but with enough land features in the map to be able to geo-reference them. I screen-grabbed the maps from the PDFs and saved the screenshots as TIFF. Then, opened QGIS, added the Open Street Maps base layer and zoomed into my area of interest. […]

Weekend Fishing

Cut & Retie podcast episode this week: https://sites.libsyn.com/441516/ep-164-the-unsinkable-speckled-urine-bag “We get the gray trout/weakfish (whatever) rarely do you get any size. Normally they’re in a massive school on top of, you know, a wreck or a rock pile or something, kind of early fall/late summer, and rarely do they get > 10 in. Last year I […]