Monthly Archives: January 2020

(Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog!) Seven years ago I wrote about Groundhog Day and suggested that we change this early February day-of-prediction to focus not on an animal that is sound asleep in his … Continue reading →

(Click here to access an audio version of this blog!) The Tree of Life is a symbol found throughout a myriad of mythologies and religions. From the ancient Middle East to the shared books of Judaism and Christianity, to Buddhism, … Continue reading →

(Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog!) Monitoring sounds in an ecosystem (also called “acoustic monitoring”) is a common technique for determining the presence of organisms that are hard to visually detect. Bird songs, for example, … Continue reading →

(Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog!) In 1984 a group of students and I built a nature trail on the campus of Penn State New Kensington. The students were inspired by a trail we had … Continue reading →