Galerie d'images de tootstorm
A cute alternate of our four host tree sites' outbreak histories (and one regional -- 'OHD' -- record at the bottom). Outbreaks are simply represented as points rather than time series data showing…
Shows superposed epoch analyses of our regional outbreak records for the Okanogan Highlands region of Washington. Input includes PDSI (i.e., water stress) climate data -- reconstructed (1685-2003)…
Summary of superposed epoch analyses for four sample sites (of host trees impacted by western spruce budworm outbreaks). Y-scale shows number of sites (b/w 1 and 4) reporting either positive or…
Results of modified Ripley's K-function showing degrees of insect outbreak synchrony. Shaded area represents bounds of significance, with positive showing synchrony, and negative asynchrony. E.g.,…
Time series data for four sample sites -- host trees impacted by western spruce budworm outbreaks -- showing the percent of trees recording outbreaks from 1685 to 2014. Dashed lines represents…
yellow rock nettle (Eucnide bartonioides Zuccarini 1844) growing in the shady dry bed pitting tuff canyon in bbnp
septarian nodule held in the hands of dr. james petersen. the red color present is due to the inclusion of the dangerous mineral cinnabar that fed the region's mercury mining operations in the early…
decrepit teddy left on the grave of a cancer victim in the Terlingua ghost town cemetery. depressing
permineralized and replaced wood sample (barely pictured as LT hates the right photo) from the ~K/T boundary alongside a modern Turk's head cactus (Echinocactus horizonthalonius Lemaire…
sign for the local 'ghost town' cemetery in Terlingua, built during the dangerous mercury boom that built the town in the early 20th century. still visited today by locals and nearby family
pedestal rock in the badlands region of bbnp, left standing on a tower of soft silts and clays protected during the rare rainstorms by the overlaying, varnished rock
turtle shell fragment, again from the badlands of bbnp, probable genus Basilemys based most strongly on the high-walled polygonal pits & unraised nodes
sun-bleached shell fragments of a desert millipede (Orthoropus ornatus Girard 1853) on the 'popcorn' clays of the badland region, probably finding life ruff out there in the never-ending…
dr. james petersen sighing over the area's only visibly thriving creosote and one of the few living plants period inside bbnp
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