SWRS

The Southwestern Research Station is a year-round field station under the direction of the Science Department of the American Museum of Natural History.🐸🕷️🐜🐍🦋🐦🦎

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Javelina aka collared peccary crossing the road to Paradise, AZ. These animals are often found around our hometown of Portal, AZ. #arizonawildlife #cochisecounty #javelina

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@AdamTaran Hey Adam. Tissue samples were taken by our spade foot toad researchers to sequence. I will post results when they arrive.

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@Ibycter @McNultyNet @LoveABug We would be thrilled to host!

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@kbrenmc All the best Kelsey. You are welcome back anytime. Geoff

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#TBThursday to 1997. Ken Yanek, pictured here with an alligator lizard, started at SWRS as a volunteer in 1997 and returned as a field assistant in 2001. To learn more about volunteering at the station, visit https://t.co/4xRYFeDqsY

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New tech meets Old West! Here are two of the @USFSSouthwest mules that helped haul about a ton of cement and equipment to the top of the #Chiricahua mountains to help install a weather station. You can check out the data at https://t.co/hYnPTpXyph #climate #mules @CoronadoNF

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Our 5th and final NSF funded Chiricahua Transect weather station erected at over 9,000’ is operational and already recorded a wind gust over 61 mph. Data from these stations updated hourly is available to all here https://t.co/hYnPTpXyph. Many thanks to our partners @DRIScience.

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Camila Lock, a teacher at Forest Hills High School in NYC gets ready to release a Rivoli’s #hummingbird. Lock & students are here studying owls with @hawkwatchint and @Earthwatch_org; their visit coincided with a banding day undertaken by the Hummingbird Monitoring Network.

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Gotcha! Our cook Mark Cooper took a break from smoking brisket to photograph this ornate tree lizard (Urosaurus ornatus). #lizard #reptile #herpetology #fieldstation

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Sangim Lee and Piotr Jablonski use a caliper to measure the beak of a Mexican Jay. This species is part of the #corvid family (which includes crows, ravens and magpies) and their social behavior is the subject of long-term studies at the station. #ornithology #birds

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Calling all #conservation students and early-career professionals: present and get feedback on your research from leading conservation professionals at the 2018 Student Conference on Conservation Science-New York! Applications open March 1 #SCCSNY2018 https://t.co/KzgTpIIlWg

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Larry Orsak circa 1983! Dr. Orsak passed away last year in Papua New Guinea, where he devoted so much of his life and work. He was buried in his adopted village of Baitabag. For more info, visit https://t.co/cTaR0ATBuH
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Panoramic view looking northeast from the Greenhouse Trail in @CoronadoNF. That red dot is the approximate location of our station so, no, you prolly won't get a cell phone signal. We do have pretty good wifi though! #fieldstation #arizona #hiking

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Acorn woodpecker taking advantage of the two hummingbird feeders we keep filled over the winter. #woodpecker #birds #arizonawildlife #hummingbirdfeeder

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Bats, Biodiversity and Bees! Learn about our 2018 course offerings in beautiful Arizona! https://t.co/DDPdpcMrnq

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Then-grad-student Deborah Gordon back in 1982 filming ants to compare spatial patterns of different species. Dr. Gordon continues her work at @Stanford and SWRS. You can check out her @TEDTalks Talk at https://t.co/o3Bv8rfhGd

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Summer field station opportunity! Students in the biological sciences and nature-lovers are invited to live and work amid the wonders of southeastern Arizona's "sky island!" #chiricahuas #birds #snakes #bugs #volunteer #fieldstation Interns / Volunteers https://t.co/4xRYFeDqsY

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Happy holidays! #lizards #reptiles #fieldstation #arizona #cochisecounty

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Can you dig it? Ron McGinley, circa 1973, uses an aspirator to blow air away as he digs a solitary ground nesting bee. Photo by Jerry Rozen. McGinley and Rozen will be back at the station next year to help co-teach the The Bee Course, its 20th anniversary. https://t.co/ezmqBh50p3

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Here's one for all you New Jersey kids being told "you're not living up to your potential." ‘Frontiers Lecture: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Astronaut Scott Kelly on Life in Space’ on #SoundCloud #np https://t.co/0zLxy3QrMf