Summer Plans

May 14th - May 31st:
I have absolutely nothing planned. I built a garden. I bought some tools... i think that, along with nice weather and residual thesis work will keep me fairly occupied. Come visit!

June 1st - June 30th:
Thesis. Thesis. Thesis. For those of you who aren't familiar with my thesis work, here's a a quick and dirty summary: We testing the validity of the "Hydraulic Limit to Tree Height" hypothesis. Basically, No one is sure why trees stop growing up. It could be limited by a number of variables, but one recent hypothesis is that height growth is limited by the ability of water to move to the tops of tall trees. In order to test this, the entire month of June will be spent climbing some of the tallest trees in Minnesota (mostly at night).

July 1st- August 15th:
I was recently offered a position as a resident biologist with a sea turtle conservation group in Costa Rica. The program takes place on the Osa peninsula in southern Costa Rica (right near Panama). For more info: http://www.osaconservation.org. Steve Devereaux might be coming too.

August 15th -....:
More thesis work.