Nottoway River, VA
Had to drag ladders through the swamp to core these beautiful old growth bald cypress. I got some serious crook eye form a ~7ft rat snake and gigantic spiders.
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Sandy Island, SC
Sandy Island, SC is one of the coolest place I have seen in that state. It is absolutely covered in very old living longleaf pine as well as rement stumps and snags.
Altamaha River
Don’t get a chance to core out of the boat a whole lot much less two at a time. This site is on the lower Altamaha near Doctortown Georgia.
Deadening Alpine Trail
Hiked the Deadening Alpine Trail with some of my students. It winds through a steep slope next to Lake Martin though what was once a long leaf pine forest. The stumps of the virgin trees are still quite solid and there are many 300+ year old trees that were not cut
Water pipe?
I had read that people used wooden water pipes in the 19th century but had not seen one. This section of long leaf pine was used in 1830s Mobile. It si displayed in the Ft Gaines museum on Dauphin Island.
Smells like Grapico
I never noticed that Kudzu blooms smell like Grapico soda.
The Bettersize has landed!
CoRPs members Lisa Davis and Becky Minzoni recently supervised the successful installation of a Bettersize particle size analyzer for group research. This instrument was funded by UA, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Geography and Geology Departments based on a collaborative proposal developed by CoRPS. This instrument will radically improve our groups ability
Cahaba Lillies
Going to see the Cahaba Lillies in bloom is always a great reason to get out on a beautiful river.
Corps makes UA news
Our CoRPS (Collaborative Research on Paleoenvironments and Societies) group research on paleoflooding and in the Tennessee River valley was recently featured on the UA News. UA Researchers use nature to discover how waterways behaved before recorded history
Fluvial activity in major river basins of the eastern United States during the Holocene
Really excited to have been a part of new paper by UA grad student (and CoRPS member) Ray Lombardi in “The Holocene” on paleoflooding. “This paper presents the first meta-analysis of fluvial reconstructions focused on regional watersheds of the eastern United States,…”