Your Posts/Comments

It's been a pleasure reading all of the comments and questions you've posted to the blog. I have tried to answer some of them within my daily journal (posts) but I realize that there are many I've not yet answered, so thank you for your patience. The limited access to internet has been a little challenging, but our P.I.s have made sure we have at least an hour every other day. This leaves me little time, however, to address your individual questions.

Many of the questions can be answered by scrolling through the blog. For example, all the animals I saw over the last two weeks are pictured within the posts. Sorry to report I have not seen any bears or moose as yet. Sorry Hannah and Janelle. Most of what we've seen are birds and small mammals.

Hunter and Megan, I really appreciate you taking the time to access the blog at home to read through and post questions. Let's see... My favorite things have been learning how to do capture, mark and recapture with the small mammals, and I also really enjoyed getting to know some wonderful new people (and dog.) I mentioned my non-favorite things in a new posting, which are deer poop surveys and same lunch every day.

The big track in my hiking pictures likely belongs to a brown bear. May be Bigfoot, though, you never can be too sure. I can't wait to share more information with you about field signs--mainly scat and tracks. I have a lot more pictures of these things, too, that I hope to get up on the blog soon.

There are 11 other people on the trip (not including our bosses, the P.I.s) . I will post a special feature on my team very soon. The two other teachers are Bob Minott from Long Island, New York and Jennifer Griffith, also from Chicago. No other Lincoln teachers.

Alex, Hunter and others who asked about my house, yes it is the "yellow house" pictured in my blog. Not too fancy, but it does the job quite comfortably. I share living space with Jen, Bob (the other teachers) and a fun couple, Lyman and Carol who have done 18 Earthwatch trips in the past! They are amazing and I am in awe of them.

Carly and Andrew, thanks for your question about what I was sniffing in Catherine's hand. It was not an insect...was your second guess otter poop? If so, you are correct! Again, we will talk more about scat later. By the way, Nikki and Devon, I appreciated your answers to the Science Notebook question regarding searching for scat.

They answered: You can tell if an animal is sick (very true), you can tell what lives where and what eats what (excellent) and that you can tell if an animal is affected by global warming. Follow-up question for you girls: How can deer poop give clues about animals affected by global warming? Please explain.

Beatrice, your question about the traps is an important one. Rather than trying to answering it in the next 3 minutes (the bus is on its way) I will include a specific post about trapping. It's very interesting.

Joseph and Charlie--Did you mean how big is the forest in which we're working, or how much land in Nova Scotia is wooded? Let me know, but good question.

I'm sorry if I did not get to your question, but hopefully I'll have some more time online tomorrow.

Talk to you again soon!