This is my office this week. 😄
I've been helping to teach the "Advanced Field Ecology" 300-level undergraduate course at #LincolnUniversityNZ.
We spend a week in the Southern Alps based at the Boyle Outdoor Education Centre. Students carry out #ecology research projects they planned last year. We've got all sorts of projects happening, from testing possum monitoring methods to seed predation of daisies to the behaviour of NZ's native water spiders.
I loved field trips when I was a student and now it is such a treat to be able to teach them as a lecturer.
The very best way to learn about nature is to get out there and explore.
Here are some photos I just uploaded to Flickr from our field trip earlier this month, to the Boyle River Outdoor Education Centre in the Canterbury Southern Alps of #NZ.
This is part of my second year Field Ecology Methods course at #LincolnUniversityNZ.
Here are some of the many species we found on Thursday on our #LincolnUniversityNZ ecology field trip to ÅŒtamahua/Quail Island in Lyttelton Harbour.
Here are some photos from our #LincolnUniversityNZ ecology field trip to ÅŒtamahua/Quail Island in Lyttelton Harbour on Thursday.
Each year we take our first year ecology and conservation class across on the ferry to spend a day on the island. ÅŒtamahua is now free of mammalian predators, except mice, and has had extensive native tree planting by volunteers for the past 30 years.
It's a fun place to explore and talk about ecological restoration.
Jon Sullivan