At our last project meeting I promised to develop a collaborative geo-annotation map for Heron’s Head Park. After a few fits and jerks I have one up and running:

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Over the holidays I have been experimenting a bit on workflow for video segments. Having never really played with video editing there is much to learn. The two-minute sequence linked below was assembled using Adobe Premiere Elements v2.0 and features an unknown creature. I found this ciliate (?) in a sample taken from [...]

Every now and then, a kite aerial photograph session will yield stereo photographs. Proper stereo images are taken with a pair of linked cameras. These serendipitous pairs are images taken in quick sequence with a single camera. Small movements due to the vagaries of the kite provide the small offset needed for stereo.
Seeing the stereo [...]

We have had a rainy weekend hereabouts so I turned my attention to a set of samples taken earlier this week from several salt ponds near the eastern end of the Dumbarton Bridge. All of the ponds were in a green phase.

This guy was charging around my slide as though a science fiction space dredge [...]

I have made a couple of recent trips to the Bay’s edge north of the Dumbarton Bridge trailhead. Up past Pond N4 there is an intriguing little strip of shore where a section of marsh exists between the salt ponds and the mudflat/Bay proper. Along this section of marshy shore I have found small (older) [...]

Historic Context Report released for SBSP Project.
On occasion I stop by the South Bay Salt Pond (SBSP) Restoration Project WWW site to see what’s new. During my last visit I was delighted to find a newly posted Final Cultural Resources Assessment Strategy Memorandum with its attached Historic Context Report and accompanying figures. This effort by [...]

HIDDEN ECOLOGIES
Meeting Notes respectfully submitted by Marina McDougall
CORE CONCEPTS:
New ways of seeing/things that are not immediately perceptible/leading to new ways of understanding
Communities – human/natural
Dimensions of scale
Dimensions of time
Mulitple points of view
Dynamic mapping experiment of shared authorship (collaborative geo-annotation)

I spent an afternoon hiking down at Don Edwards yesterday. It was a short, grey day; winds were low. Our small pan on the north edge of Pond N1 went almost dry by the end of summer. It is now filled with water again. Methinks this is from the high tides over the last month [...]