by Meg | Mar 14, 2013 | animal, coal, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Science, Travel, wildlife
Being the only Americans in a city of 1.25 million, you tend to stick out a little bit. It just so happened that we caught the eye of a reporter from the Ya’an Daily Newspaper. Over a steaming bowl of Ya’an’s best noodles at Mr. Cheng’s, we...
by Meg | Mar 8, 2013 | pollution |
When we arrived in China this year, we immediately noticed a difference in how much smog there was. The long corridors of the airport terminals were hazy and our line of sight was reduced to a few hundred feet. We couldn’t tell if it was our mind playing tricks...
by Meg | Mar 4, 2013 | coal, Environmental Impact, Misc., Panda, pollution, Science, Travel, wildlife
Both Meghan and I were approached by a few kids from the local high school and asked if we could come and lecture for a few hours on what we do in China. It was quite a treat to learn about the lives of the students and how they all seem to think that biologist...
by Meg | Mar 4, 2013 | animal, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Science, wildlife
The extreme difficulty in obtaining permits to transfer biological samples back to the United States from China has caused our mercury project to use a lab here in China. We are very pleased to have made contact with one of China’s foremost Methylmercury...
by Meg | Apr 22, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, pollution
The seemingly endless stretch of the San Joaquin Valley in South central California is bordered on all sides by federal penitentiaries and quadrants of produce. I cannot think of a better place to capture uniform lines of roads and crops that intertwine with...
by Meg | Apr 2, 2012 | Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Travel |
Bamboo comprises 90-100% of the Pandas diet and is collected from all over the Sichuan province to feed the bears insatiable appetite. In a previous study that we performed last year, the bamboo that was collected near the city center in comparison to samples...
