A memorable evening of SciSpark 2022 celebrating women in science at Cedar Creek ESR including Katrina Freund Saxhaug, @nehamohanbabu, Karen Castillioni, PhD, Bea Baselga Cervera,PhD,DVM 🇪🇸🇺🇸, Hanan Farah, Maria Park, Elizabeth Borer. Hands on activities, short ⚡️talks + SO many great questions from attendees #UMNproud

Yesterday we flew again multispectral and LiDAR sensors on the Forest and Biodiversity experiments at Cedar Creek ESR. It was fun and the point clouds look so nice! Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares Maria Park

got peed on by a turtle I lifted and moved off the road while biking back from buying bubbly to celebrate Dr Josh Brian's manuscript acceptance. a good omen?

Science by day, art by night — finished up the last two watercolor paintings while at Cedar Creek ESR for the #Seychelles #Biennale exhibition and sent them off today! (First time shipping artwork internationally!)

Everyone say “Long term ecological research!” Quick group photo of the hundreds of participants gathered at Asilomar for this years #LTERasm2022! US LTER

Friend Xiating Chen from MSP-LTER told me to bring my violin to #LTERASM2022. Music jam session + spontaneous experimental #ecoacoustics collab with @matthewburtner Virginia Coast Reserve LTER ensued! My #arts #music and #ecology worlds collide! Thank you US LTER Cedar Creek ESR NCEAS U.S. National Science Foundation

"The Lorax is a role model to me. I often feel that I have found a loophole in our rat-race of a society because I get to work outdoors. But it is definitely not all fun and games." Maria Park, from her new SSALTER blog post. Cedar Creek ESR. Check it out! lternet.edu/stories/we-are…

girl in the bucket hat is goin to DC! thank you Ecological Society - excited to meet everyone there!!

I'll be on a panel and leading a workshop with two amazing artists about art, ecology, natural pigments, and the intersections of all the above. Come join in the fun!

... and a hike out to Cedar Bog Lake wraps up our last spring field trip of 2023! Students headed out to Cedar Creek ESR to learn about opportunities in field-based research. Thanks to all who lead, organized, drove, and attended our inaugural field-trip series this spring!!

Graduate student Maria Maria Park shows how she uses #sciart, drawing and painting with plant-derived pigments, to help her think about and communicate about plant biodiversity #SpotlightScience

I beleaf 🌿

A very tiny hedgehog made from pressed fern, with an acorn for scale

⁦ASCEND⁩ at the ⁦Ecological Society⁩ meeting in Portland, Oregon spectralbiology.org #NSF

yay science! also more ecological music jamming to come ft. musicians from Cedar Creek & MSP LTERs ~ stay tuned Maggie Anderson Cedar Creek ESR MSP-LTER US LTER

Such a cool team of people to work with. My first 1st-author publication is at the intersection of art & ecology! Thank you Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares Cedar Creek ESR UMN CBS for supporting me in this!

Dramatic clouds rolling in Cedar Creek ESR The last first day of field season in my PhD - bittersweet

Come to the Bell this Sat! I’ll be leading a mural painting! Have been prepping a lot of fun natural paints (currently making oak gall pigments) so you should come thru! 🎨 🌱