Welcome field assistants!!

The fieldwork is moving along efficiently tanks to our two field assistants: ESF senior Laura Labarge and ESF grad Logan Osterhoudt. Between sampling and hauling equipment around the woods, we couldn't do this without them!

ESF senior Laura Labarge having an amazing time pipe sampling

ESF grad Logan Osterhoudt enjoying some wonderful summer weather

Laura making a new friend (American Toad, Anaxyrus Americanus)

Other forest critters hang out by the pools (Eastern newt, juvenile eft stage, Notopthalamus viridescens)

My selfie with an adult Eastern newt

An adult green frog (Lithobates clamitans) hitching a ride on the sampling net