My Year of Darwin (2/15/2014)

"The trees were very lofty, and remarkable, compared with those of Europe, from the whiteness of their trunks. I see by my notebook, 'wonderful and beautiful flowering parasites,' invariably struck me as the most novel object in these grand scenes." Charles Darwin - Voyage of the Beagle

Midstory in Manaus, Brazil continuous forest site. 

Emergent tree covered in epiphytes at the La Selva Research Station, Costa Rica

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State report on natural gas drilling is due Monday, book chapter overdue, exams to be graded, homeworks and labs to be created and past ones graded. Anxiety. Anxiety. Anxiety.