An update from the May Portal trip (which occurred immediately after my Giant Kangaroo Rat foray):
Recent USU graduate, Ben Morris, who had been working with the Weecology lab for the past few years, finally made it out to our field site, just before starting his Ph.D. with the Hurlbert lab at UNC! Ben spends most of his time on the computer being a ninja at utilizing ecoinformatics and big data, but he proved quite worthy in the field. We also saw a coati in the middle of the desert. Not sure what it was doing out there, but it didn’t look too happy… (sorry, no coati pictures to prove it!)
Ben weighs a grasshopper mouse.
Ben measures the hind foot length of a kangaroo rat.
The Portal Project 