by admin | Jul 31, 2010 | Field Techniques, Publications, Apps, and Websites
If you would like another option for looking at topo maps of New York or other places in the US you can use this new map from ESRI on Arcgis.com. If you click on Basemaps on the top of the map you can look at different maps including aerials and USGS maps. Its very...
by admin | Jul 24, 2010 | Field Techniques
An unintended consequence of the decline of the newspaper business (our local newspaper is getting really thin now) is the loss of newsprint to press plants. Maybe we should press them between iPads! Any other suggestions? (an iPress?) – Steve Young
by admin | Jul 23, 2010 | Field Techniques
Below is a photo of botanist David Werier using his iPad in the field to look at plant manuals he has stored on it. David says it saves him a lot of weight and he can carry many references that would have been impossible to bring in the field in the past. It has a...
by admin | Jul 4, 2010 | Field Techniques
There have been many times in the field when I have seen botanists look across a large marsh or up a high cliff and say, “I wish I had a jetpack to fly out there and take a look.” Well, the day has come and the first commercially available jetpack, the...
by admin | Jul 4, 2010 | Field Techniques
I noticed the new mosquito fan by OFF! for sale and wondered if anyone has used it during botanical field work and how it performed. Comments welcome.
by admin | Jun 24, 2010 | Field Techniques, Happenings, Plant Identification
November 5, 2010 — Woody Plant Identification and Natural History in Winter Learn how to use keys to identify trees, shrubs, and woody vines in winter condition Acquire identification skills that are useful for, e.g., wetland boundary delineation, surveys for rare...
