Bucknell Field Botany class posing at sunset.
What troopers! W/ temps in the 20s & darkness setting in for 1/3 of the exam period, this #FieldBotany crew totally killed their on-campus plant ID exam. Of 150+ species we learned, they were responsible for 133… and got tested on 40. Proud of them for meeting the challenge! #bisonflowers 1/2
Class of students in front of a red Dries Orchards sign
John Bzdil of Dries Orchards in the orchard telling students about how apples are grown.
John Bzdil of Dries Orchards in the processing area telling students about how apples are sorted and packaged.
Students sampling apples and apple cider
Last Field Botany trip of the semester: Dries Orchards, where we learned about how apples are grown, harvested, processed, and sold... and turned into both sweet and hard cider. #bisonflowers #iamabotanist
15 piles of mounted herbarium specimens
Some Field Botany final products: stacks of the 5 specimens each student chose to mount out of the 15 they each submitted for credit. I love the look of freshly mounted #herbarium specimens… and am stoked about adding these to
Bucknell’s Manning Herbarium collection.
#bisonflowers #iamabotanist
4 students mounting specimens
4 students mounting specimens
1 student mounting a fern specimen
3 students mounting specimens
Herbarium specimen mounting day in Field Botany. #bisonflowers #iamabotanist
Bus parked on dimly lit street, Bucknell campus
Second-to-last Field Botany trip of the semester. 25F at time of bus pickup. But at least it’s an indoor field trip today. #bisonflowers
Twitter post from last year reporting 72 species consumed. Photo is pumpkin pie and blueberry pie .. a la mode.
Okay, gang. Are we ready for a little Bluesky #PlantsGiving action? A social media tradition since 2018: counting & reporting out the number of plant species consumed during your Thursday dinner. I've got a class doing it for homework. Excited to see what they share. #iamabotanist #bisonflowers
Four survey groups, 4 students each, working in an open forest to survey seedling recruitment
Four survey groups, 4 students each, working in an open forest to survey seedling recruitment
Four survey groups, 4 students each, working in an open forest to survey seedling recruitment
Four survey groups, 4 students each, working in an open forest to survey seedling recruitment
Field Botany surveying tree/shrub recruitment in gaps in an oak-hickory forest resulting from oak mortality caused by spongy moth infestations. Thanks to the Haussmann family for letting us tromp around in their woods.
#bisonflowers #lymantriadispar #raybucknell
Empty reservoir at Roaring Creek Tract
Students on the botany bus
Hamamelis flowers
Was a good week in Field Botany with a trek to Weiser State Forest’s Roaring Creek Tract. Dam repair = empty reservoir. Lots of coal country history to chat about here. 125 years ago there were almost no trees in this view to speak of. #resiliency #iamabotanist #bisonflowers
Field Botany ‘24 on a red oak log overlooking Turtle Creek. Another beautiful day for learning our local flora. #bisonflowers #iamabotanist
Two Bucknell classes, 112 years later... at the same site on the railroad tracks between "Gundy's Farm" and the West Branch Susquehanna.
#raybucknell #fieldbotany #bisonflowers
Field Botany '24 visit to the Bucknell campus farm. Met crop plants from families we've covered, ate some Solanum berries + some aggregates of drupelets, sniffed some antiherbivore biochemistry, hung with the three sisters. The uszh. #bisonflowers
Field Botany rite of passage: viewing Mohn Mill Natural Area from this bridge on the Mid-State Trail.
#bisonflowers #midstatetrail #mohnmill #merrilllinntrail
Field Botany ‘24 at The Hook Natural Area, Bald Eagle State Forest, taking in the view of the Buffalo Creek watershed. One of the great lookouts of our entire region.
#bisonflowers #raybucknell #fieldbotany
Lovely morning on Buffalo Creek with Field Botany + office door whiteboard. IYKYK. #fieldwork #bisonflowers
First full field day in Field Botany took us to the banks of the West Branch #SusquehannaRiver. Too deep/fast to wade out this time, but plenty to see/learn in the riparian woodland (which was fully flooded only 2 weeks ago). #bisonflowers
Intro to Flowers lab in Field Botany, including what’s really going on in a sun”flower”
#bisonflowers #fieldbotany
Good first day of #FieldBotany ‘24. Keyed out Impatiens capensis as a group, learned some new botanical terms, then used those skillz to key out some trees in teams. It’s on.
#bisonflowers
Coffee at the opposite-leaved woody plant cafe on our way out of Grand Rapids and #Botany2024. #iamabotanist #plantjoy #bisonflowers
Awesome trip to Dries Orchards with Field Botany today. Full curriculum in growing, harvesting, sorting, selling apples … plus how hard cider gets made.
#bisonflowers #iamabotanist
~175 student Field Botany specimens collected, ID’d, pressed, dried, mounted, and labelled (and also today graded). Some nice additions to the @BucknellU Manning #Herbarium.
#iamabotanist #collections #bisonflowers
This intrepid gang of Field Botany students recorded 223 plant species during their 1-hour survey of our local Weis grocery store. Now to analyze the data….
#marketbotany #grocerybotany #bisonflowers
Field Botany students just about done with their herbarium collections assignment. After break it’s labels and mounting.
#bisonflowers #bucknell
Field Botany gang at Roaring Creek Tract, Weiser State Forest. Really beautiful day in the woods.
#bisonflowers #iamabotanist #roaringcreek #weiserstateforest #raybucknell🔶🔷
Cold noses, frosty windows, warm hearts/minds on our Field Botany trip to Tall Timbers.
#iamabotanist #bisonflowers
Checking out a Justicia-smartweed gravel bed community on the Susquehanna River with Field Botany.
#bisonflowers #iamabotanist
Fun class trip to Gilly’s Lilies florist in Mifflinburg, PA with a special tour from owner Sarah Wheatley. Learned a “bunch” about the industry and the art of floral design.
#fieldbotany #bisonflowers
View from inside the botany bus this morning, on our way back from a visit to a reconstructed wetland.
#bisonflowers #botanybus #bus42
