Summer Season Gone

After an early summer of much phenology and morphology studies in the Blue Ridge and Piedmont, I had a great time helping teach Genetic Conservation of Salamanders in the Highlands of NC, with JJ Apodaca (Warren Wilson College, NC).  At that time I found a new population of Hydatica that can be studied and am excited about such remote conditions and its influence on the genes.  Then more botanizing happened in the woods before a much needed family vacation - it was great to disappear and see the US by road trip!  I am now finalizing our treatment of Hydatica shealyi mcmillan & cushman before final publication.  This coming fall I get to teach some botany labs and I hope to finish my collections and extractions for the GBS work in the spring.  Lot's to do!