Davis Mountains Accomodations
My I’ve been busy. I finally got around to putting up pictures. They’re not much, but I haven’t been carrying my camera with me yet.
For now, I’m staying in the McIvor Center. It’s a spacious building that’s got nice facilities including a kitchen and an adequate bedroom. It’s also got a wireless internet network via a satellite connection. It’s also a got a nice view. From the center, one can see Mount Livermore in the distance.
And last but not least, I traded cars with my professor to get a vehicle with a little more ground clearance (an absolute necessity on the back roads). The car comes with a colorful bumper sticker.
The thing that’s keeping me so busy is trying to setup my transects. Each point has to be 250 meters apart, and I’m finding that very difficult at times when trying to deal with the terrain. Once those transects are setup, I’ll try to run 20 points each morning in four hours. After that I’m done for the day and will get to enjoy myself a little more. Go birding, take pictures, do all that reading I have planned for this summer, etc. I’m sure blogging will be a little more frequent then too.
Hi Jay,
When you have time, could you do a post explaining how transects work, and what “runnning 20 points each morning” means? As a non-biologist, I’m unfamiliar with the terminology but interested in learning more. I’ll bet your other non-biologist readers are too.
Regards,
Keith S.
Keith, I will be happy to do that. My mother has been asking me the same questions, because she’s interested in running one herself on some projects. So I’ll put up a little transects 101 to explain what they’re about and why and how I’m doing mine in the Davis Mountains.
And more about the entire process generally, please. Heck, you could just treat the blog as your notes, and write the thesis using the entries.