For the past week four of us from #LincolnUniversityNZ were based at Hinewai Reserve on Banks Peninsula, NZ. We visited a set of monitoring sites in and out of the predator control area of the Predator Free Banks Peninsula project. Predator Free Banks Peninsula is primarily targetting brush-tailed possums at the moment and we're interested in how that is affecting birds, lizards, and invertebrates.

We've been doing this for several years so we're also interested in what the general trends are in these animals in this amazing landscape.

We counted, weighed, and photographed all the lizards in our lizard shelters (mostly geckos). Jennifer Gillette is using the unique patterns on geckos' backs and irises to track individuals over the years.

We also brought in our audio recorders, which monitored birds and, optimistically, bats. Bats haven't officially been detected on Banks Peninsula in decades. There's still hope so we put out bat recorders in several of the areas of oldest forest.

We also brought in our invertebrate pitfall traps.

We've got three more days on the Peninsula this coming week, then we can get stuck into identifying the specimens, processing the data, and finding our what the patterns and trends are.

#ecology #fieldwork #EcologicalMonitoring #BanksPeninsula #NZ

For the past week four of us from #LincolnUniversityNZ were based at Hinewai Reserve on Banks Peninsula, NZ. We visited a set of monitoring sites in and out of the predator control area of the Predator Free Banks Peninsula project. Predator Free Banks Peninsula is primarily targetting brush-tailed possums at the moment and we're interested in how that is affecting birds, lizards, and invertebrates.

We've been doing this for several years so we're also interested in what the general trends are in these animals in this amazing landscape.

We counted, weighed, and photographed all the lizards in our lizard shelters (mostly geckos). Jennifer Gillette is using the unique patterns on geckos' backs and irises to track individuals over the years.

We also brought in our audio recorders, which monitored birds and, optimistically, bats. Bats haven't officially been detected on Banks Peninsula in decades. There's still hope so we put out bat recorders in several of the areas of oldest forest.

We also brought in our invertebrate pitfall traps.

We've got three more days on the Peninsula this coming week, then we can get stuck into identifying the specimens, processing the data, and finding our what the patterns and trends are.

#ecology #fieldwork #EcologicalMonitoring #BanksPeninsula #NZ

The Polar might is drawing in, the neighbouring nunatak

Ploegen, with the sun almost setting behind it.

#iQ2300 #Antarctica #Fieldwork #PolarScience #ClimateScience #FieldPhoto #FieldworkPhoto

'I rarely get outside': scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04150-w

#HackerNews #I #rarely #get #outside #scientists #fieldwork #AI #HackerNews

Yesterday's drive to this field site was quite challenging, cold, windy, icy, monster sastrugi and white out. An Antarctic experience...



#iQ2300 #FieldPhoto #Fieldwork

We were rewarded late yesterday evening with beautiful sun and spectacular snow crystals.

Today I have mostly been in the lab tent...



#iQ2300 #FieldPhoto #Fieldwork #Antarctica #DronningMaudLand #frostodon #icetodon

Yesterday's drive to this field site was quite challenging, cold, windy, icy, monster sastrugi and white out. An Antarctic experience...



#iQ2300 #FieldPhoto #Fieldwork

After the 2 days of storm, the surface has been scoured into crazy sastrugi patterns at our field site this afternoon.



#Sastrugi #Antarctica #iQ2300 #FieldPhoto #FieldWork

It's a beautiful day after the storm, spent a morning in the lab preparing samples for oxygen isotopes, but we're going out later for more coring and sampling. Here are WP9 including @mercerraa@pixelfed.global heading out for a few days overnight on the shelf.



The small cabins give a useful sense of scale in the huge landscape.

#iQ2300 #Antarctica #FieldWork #FieldPhoto #WasaStation

It's a beautiful day after the storm, spent a morning in the lab preparing samples for oxygen isotopes, but we're going out later for more coring and sampling. Here are WP9 including @mercerraa@pixelfed.global heading out for a few days overnight on the shelf.



The small cabins give a useful sense of scale in the huge landscape.

#iQ2300 #Antarctica #FieldWork #FieldPhoto #WasaStation

The #iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

I'm heading south. I plan to upload my #Antarctic #Fieldwork photos here, so here is a test image, not one of mine, but a Sentinel2 satellite image of the Drygalski Mountains in Dronning Maud Land last year.

Read more about it here:

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/heading-south/

The first step in the ~14,500 km journey (as the crow flies) to Wasa was a taxi to the airport. The second is a flight to Oslo*.
It's masks on time.

*Yes, this #fieldwork involves *a lot* of carbon. Let's hope the data is worth it...

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/heading-south/

I'm heading south. I plan to upload my #Antarctic #Fieldwork photos here, so here is a test image, not one of mine, but a Sentinel2 satellite image of the Drygalski Mountains in Dronning Maud Land last year.

Read more about it here:

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/heading-south/

The #iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

The first step in the ~14,500 km journey (as the crow flies) to Wasa was a taxi to the airport. The second is a flight to Oslo*.
It's masks on time.

*Yes, this #fieldwork involves *a lot* of carbon. Let's hope the data is worth it...

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/heading-south/

RE: https://aus.social/@Andbaker/115569192668817713

Thanks to everyone for a successful groundwater hydrology research visit to the Limestone Coast region of South Australia.
#fieldwork #academia

RE: https://aus.social/@Andbaker/115569192668817713

Thanks to everyone for a successful groundwater hydrology research visit to the Limestone Coast region of South Australia.
#fieldwork #academia

10 years ago the Finnish #demoscene organized the first #DIY #fablab #hacklab festival in Finland

choosing local slang for the name rather than aligning with English names or corporations (e.g. Silicon Valley's Maker Media)

organized appropriately enough in a large culture centre that was formerly a factory - #postindustrial

DIY craft hobbyists met hackers met educators met librarians

WÄRK:fest, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki
21-24 October 2012

#research #fieldwork