Spring is here, and with that the mining bees have emerged. We are trying out our airborne eDNA sampling in an aggregation that is close to campus. Concentration of airborne eDNA is LOW, so please wish us luck!

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Earlier this week I had the good fortune to help #LincolnUniversityNZ ecology Masters student Heidi Allan with her field work.

Heidi's got an ambitious big-scale discovery project going, looking at the beetle communities in native NZ beech forest canopies all the way from Kaikoura on the east coast to Punakaiki on the west coast, and from the lowlands up into the Southern Alps.

The beetle community in NZ's beech canopies is largely unexplored, and has never been sampled at anything close to this scale before. Heidi's bound to find lots of new things. She'll also greatly increase our knowledge of how this community is affected by climate.

Here are some photos from our trip. Along with Heidi are John Marris, the curator of our university entomology museum, and our university's herpetologist (and lover of creepy crawlies) Jennifer Gillette.

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Third attempt to get sediments from the "Unterer Eissee" beneath the Hallstätter Glacier, Austria. We carried our equipment three hours up, partially steep slopes and deep snow. In 1.5h, we dug a 1.6 m pit into the snow on the lake and moved c. 2.5 (metric) tonnes of snow with three avalanche rescue shovels, just to find out that what used to be the deepest part of the lake was dry. We still took 2 sediment cores, one of which was ruined by an adjacent stone. In 10h of field work, we further ruined one sediment corer, one snowshoe and a glove.

This is not what successful #fieldwork looks like...

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Out in the field doing what I love 🌍🔎

Geophysics isn’t just about data and instruments, it’s about getting your boots on the ground, reading the earth, and uncovering the stories hidden beneath our feet. Every site has something new to teach you.

Field day, good equipment, and the science of the subsurface. ⚒️📡

#Geophysics #FieldWork #EarthScience #OnSite #Exploration