It was a bright and sunny day out on the Lake and we had just nailed our big clue:

On Sunday Wayne, Cris and I went back to the sites around the west lake section of Lake Merced to further explore the redish film at certain sites on the north side of the lake.
Wayne took several samples from the water that spills inland from the lake beyond the tule growth and Cris did some [...]

Susan, Wayne, and I returned to Lake Merced last Sunday to revisit several of Wayne’s previous micro-organism sampling sites. My charge was sampling site documentation using aerial images. It was a beautiful day — sunny, balmy, and virtually windless. Absent wind the kites stayed in the car (pouting no doubt) while I played with the [...]

On February 19th, 2007, Susan Swartzenberg, Tim Waters, Cris Benton, and I made a field trip to Lake Merced in San Francisco. Click on the blue underlined [or red] names for earlier reports of this field trip, and for web information about Lake Merced.

I am doing a study of Lake Merced and asked Cris and Wayne to help me better understand the geography and micro communities of the Lake. Lake merced is considered a treasure of San Francisco because of its natural beauty, but also because it is considered a “wild” area and is protected and gently managed [...]