Here are some shots from the 2007 trip.
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Vegetation-elevation gradient
Measuring vegetation change in Onion Valley
from the desert floor to the High Sierra
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Vegetation survey results.
Species-site table.
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(Photo: Steve) |
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Golden Trout eggs |
Native & Sport Fishes
Kern River Fish Hatchery
Rearing and stocking Rainbow Trout
&
Hatching and restoring Golden Trout
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(Photo: Russell)
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Pumping mature Rainbow Trout
into stocking truck tank |
Gill-net for removing
non-native Brook Trout
from lakes managed for restoration of
Mountain Yellow-legged Frog
(Photo: Russell?)
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BMI species-site table |
Benthic Macroinvertebrates
Indicators of stream health .
Sampling, sorting, identifying, and returning to stream.
Summarizing using species-site table & polution tolerance indices.
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Geology
Sierra Nevada batholith.
Long Valley Caldera & related volcanoes.
White Inyo Range paleozoic sediments.
Kettleman Hills petroleum. |
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Climbing an obsidian plug dome |
(Photo: Keith) |
Soils killed by CO2
Pumice - volcanic rock that floats |
(Photo: Steve) |
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(Photo: Russell) |
(Photo: Russell) |
Native American History
Rock Art.
Tools.
Modern Tribes.
Early European History. |
(Photo: Steve) |
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Fossil hunting
Triassic Ammonites
Cambrian Archaeocyathids |
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(Photo: Steve)
(Photo: Steve) |
Plume
Measuring streamflow
(Photo: John)
Mixing experiment
(Photo: Keith)
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Mono Lake limno-ecology
Freshwater inflow.
Freshwater plume into Lake.
Mixing of fluids.
Lake ecosystem:
algae, flies, shrimp, birds.
Fly, shrimp, & bird ID
(Photo: Steve)
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Booming Sand Dunes |
(Photo: Keith)
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(Photo: Keith) |
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Californian Vegetation Distribution
Vegetation site characterization
Tree classification & identification
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Eastern Sierra water budget
Lower Owens Restoration Project (LORP)
SNOTEL gaging of snowpack |
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Nature Photography
(Photo: Keith)
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Astronomy (Corona around Moon) |
Glacier observation
(Photo: Keith)
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Pumice
(Photo: Russell)
M-people
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Brookie
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Owens Bearded Worm
(Photo: Steve)
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De-stress test |
Perpendicular Bonding
He's "Leaving on a Jet Plane..."
(Photo: Keith)
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Disc
Rain
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Recuperation 1
Recuperation 2
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Fly
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Road to El Cap
Cambrian Dog
(Photo: John)
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Facilities courtesy of LADWP
(Photo: Keith?)
Give me a place to stand...
(Photo: Russell)
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Summiteers
(Photo: Russell)
Snowpack
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Recuperation 3
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Mono Camp
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If Rodin had a cell phone
(Photo: Russell)
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Tribute to the Classics
(Photo: Russell)
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Apprentice Shaman
(Photo: Steve) |
Beating the Heat
(Photo: Steve)
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Brookie 2
(Photo: Steve)
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(Photo: Keith)
Fly ball
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Sluicislide
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Airborne |
Snow at the waters edge
(Photo: Steve)
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Recuperation 4 |
Mono storm |
Owens River (Photo: Russell)
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High Lake |
Giant
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Dune scales 1 |
Horsetails |
Needles
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Fossil falling (Photo: Steve) |
Negit & Paoha |
Kearsarge
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Passers by
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Lichen (Photo: Russell)
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Fish Slough
(Photo: Steve) |
Infinity pool
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Lee Vining Ck
(Photo: Steve) |
Kearsarge (Photo: Steve)
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Mono sunset (Photos: Steve, Fred, Fred) |
Eureka (Photo: Russell)
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Sage
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Fissure
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Jacob's Ladder (Photo: Russell)
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Reflections (Photo: Russell) |
Onion Trail
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Fissure creatures |
Tyler
Jacob's other Ladder (Photo: Steve) |
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Obsidian & Pumice
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Needle in a haystack |
Needles' Edge |
Black Point
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Dune scales 2 |
Dune crest |
Dune shadows |
Dunes parallel |
Dune awakening |
Dune pair (Photo: Russell) |
Microdunes 1 |
Dune sprint |
Microdunes 2 |
Waucobi highway (Photo: Steve) |
Fissure crew (Photo: Keith) |
Manzanita
(Photo: Steve)
Fishing in the sequoias
Sequoia heart
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Charlie's Mountain (Photo: Steve)
Calaveras creek |
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Spring snow (Photo: Steve)
Fossil flow (Photo: Steve) |
Not climbing (Photo: Steve) |
? Woolly Mule's Ears
Wyethia Mollis
Ebbett's Pass
Applegate's paintbrush
Castilleja applegatei (prob.)
Mono Camp |
Snow Plant
Sarcodes sanguineapre
Greenhorn Mtns
White Mtns
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Giant Sequoia
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Freman Grove |
Mojave Mound Cactus
Echinocerus triglochidiatus var. mojaviensis
Westgard Pass
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Eureka Valley dune grass
Swallenia alexandrae
Eureka Dunes
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Mature Mountain Hemlock
Tsuga mertensiana
Ebbett's Pass |
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Bristlecone Pine, Pinus longaeva- Shulmann Grove, White Mtns
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Alpine Buttercup - Kearsarge Pass
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Graminoid - Kearsarge Pass |
Squaw Wax Currant
Ribes cereum ssp. ...
Kearsarge Pass |
Onion Valley
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Phlox
Kearsarge Pass
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White Park Pine
Pinus albicaulis
Kearsarge Pass |
Beavertail
Opuntia sp.
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Fish Slough Milkvetch
Astragalus lentiginosus var. piscinensis
(threatened)
Fish Slough
Fish Slough
(Photo: Keith)
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Giant Sequoia
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Freman Grove
Giant Sequoia
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Freman Grove (Photo: Russell) |
Phacelia?
Westgard Pass
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Sierra Overlook, White Mtns |
Sierra Overlook, White Mtns |
Eriogonum sp.
Sierra Overlook, White Mtns |
? Bigelow's monkeyflower
Mimulus bigelovii
Lookout Mtn, near Mammoth Lakes |
Antelope Bitterbrush
Purshia tridentata
Hot Creek |
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Western White Pine, Pinus monticola -
Ebbett's Pass
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Paintbrush
Monitor Pass
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Monitor Pass
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? Forget-me-not
Monitor Pass
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Desert Peach
Prunus andersonii
Panum Crater
Jeffrey Pine
Lee Vining Creek |
Foxtail Pine
Pinus Balfouriana
Onion Valley
Common Juniper
Juniperus communis
Ebbett's Pass
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Charlie's Mountain
(Photo: Russell)
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Lichen
(Photo: Keith)
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Alpine meadow
Ebbett's Pass
Paintbrush & Phlox
Ebbett's Pass
Larkspur
Delphinium glaucum
Ebbett's Pass |
Brook Trout
Salvelinus fontinalis |
Yellow-bellied Marmot
Marmota flaviventris |
Stonefly
Plecoptera Perlidae |
Scorpion
Scorpiones
near Mono Lake
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Great Basin Gopher Snake
Pituophis catenifer deserticola
Eureka Valley
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Clark's Nutcrackers
Nucifraga columbiana |
California Golden Trout eggs
Oncorhychus mykiss aguabonita |
Black Bear trap
Ursus americanus |
Crayfish, Owens River
(Photo: Russell)
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Luminous Millipede
Motyxia sequoia
Greenhorn Mountains |
Luminous Millipede
Motyxia sequoia
Greenhorn Mountains |
Soil invertebrate |
Brook Trout
Salvelinus fontinalis |
Caddisfly case
( Trichoptera)
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Rainbow Trout
Oncorhychus mykiss
(Photo: Steve)
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? Northern Bluets mating
Enallagma cyathigerum
Lower Owens River
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Common Green Darners (mating)
Anax junius
Lower Owens River
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Emerald Spreadwing
Lestes dryas
Fish Slough
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California (or Aztec?) Dancer (female)
Argia agrioides (or nahuana)
Fish Slough
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Flame Skimmer
Libellula saturata
Fish Slough |
? Four-spotted Skimmer
Libellula quadrimaculata
Fish Slough |
? Paiute Dancer
Argia alberta
Fish Slough |
? Paiute Dancer
Argia alberta
Fish Slough |
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Golden-Mantled Squirrel
Spermophilus lateralis
Schulmann Grove
(Photo: Keith)
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Clark's Nutcracker
Nucifraga columbiana
Shulmann Grove |
Insect on Squaw Wax Currant, Shulmann Grove
(Ribes cereum ssp. ...) |
Darkling Ground Beetle
? Eusattus muricatus
Eureka Dunes
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Darkling Ground Beetle
? Eusattus muricatus
Eureka Dunes |
Beetle, Eureka Dunes |
Cricket, Eureka Dunes |
Beetle track, Eureka Dunes
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Scat, Kearsarge Pass
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Owens Pupfish
Cyprinodon radiosus
(Photo: Keith) |
Ants & Fly, Mono Camp |
Western Fence Lizard
Sierra Dark Phase
Sceloporus occidentalis
(Photo: Keith) |
Townsend's Ground Squirrel
Spermophilus townsendii
Mono County Park
(Photo: Keith) |
Caddisflies underwater
Trichoptera
Lee Vining Creek |
Bullfrog tadpole
Rana catesbeiana
Fish Slough
(Photo: Keith)
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Townsend's Ground Squirrel
Spermophilus townsendii
Mono County Park
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? Wandering Garter Snake
Thamnophis elegans vagrans
near Mono Lake |
Zebra-Tailed Lizard
Callisaurus draconoides (probably)
Eureka Dunes
(Photo: Keith) |
Stoneflies, Mayflies, Caddisflies
Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera
Lee Vining Creek
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Snakefly
Raphidiodea Agulla sp.
on Big Sagebrush
Artemesia tridentata
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Lee Vining Ck BMI habitat
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Jack Rabbit
Lee Vining Ck
(Photo: John)
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Alkali Fly
Ephydra hians
Mono Lake
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Marmot Scat
Marmota flaviventris
Kearsarge Pass
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Desert Horned Lizard - and his promotional information
Phrynosoma platyrhinos
Charlie's Mountain |
Cattle
Bos taurus
Ebbett's Pass
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