CHRISTCHURCH, N.Z. I’d been in New Zealand two days, and there’d been two shark attacks in Australian waters.  The latest victim, a good-looking snorkeling guide who seemed remarkably cheerful about the whole business (“Must have great pain meds,” my hostess said), couldn’t wait for his arm to heal so he [...]

This post is cross-posted from The Stanford Daily. I met Makana in August 2005, where an old lava flow meets the ocean in a series of ledges and tide pools on Kauai, one of the Hawaiian Islands. He was a “local” of about my age who got his name (Hawaiian for [...]

Acorn woodpeckers are virtually unmistakable (although nothing is unmistakable until you’ve had some practice) and probably the bird I find most fun to watch around the center of campus (I’d vote that the Acorn woodpecker be the official Stanford bird, but no has asked me yet).  You can often see [...]

The campus is coming alive again, as first year students settle in and the rest of students return.  The SUSSing Sustainability Blog is also waking up after a late summer nap – we’ve been all quiet for just over a week. There’s a lot of exciting human connections being made, as [...]

Do you want to help Stanford faculty and graduate students identify and count the wide range of Lake Lagunita’s critters? Head out to Lag on Saturday, April 23rd to participate in BioBlitz 2011, is a free event organized by the student group Stanford SEEDS: Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity and [...]