San Diego Natural History Museum
Memories of Mohave Desert Camping – Cima
2016-11-08~14: Camping In The Mojave I left Poway on Tuesday, November 8 to catch up with the Bird and Mammal team from the San Diego Natural History Museum. The science…
Memories of Garner Valley
Garner Valley sits between the sky islands of San Jacinto (10,833′) and Santa Rosa (8,717′) in southern Riverside County. My first visit here was June 2011 with the San Diego…
2009-05-01: Remembering The Mission Trails BioBlitz
I took part in the first three organized BioBlitz events with the San Diego Natural History Museum. The first one took place in 2008 at Balboa Park, the second in…
Mammal Atlas Photo Credits
I received my copy of the San Diego County Mammal Atlas last Tuesday, December 19, 2017. Prior to this I’d seen only the individual species accounts that comprise the main…
2017-08-07 Warner Valley With The SDNHM Team
The science team from the San Diego Natural History Museum had taken on a project to survey the biology at several inland wetland areas. I missed out on the previous…
San Diego County Mammal Atlas Goes To Press
The process of getting the Mammal Atlas to print has been long and arduous, made longer by all the checks and balances required along the way. The book describes 122…
2017-06-17~20 Cottonwood Springs (Part 2)
On my previous post I shared images of the players in the Rat Theater, but I also had some nice avian encounters during this expedition. Mockingbirds, Mourning Doves and House…
2017-06-17~20 Cottonwood Springs
From June 12th to the 20th, the San Diego Natural History Museum science team focused their mission on Cottonwood Springs and the Pinto Basin at the southeastern corner of Joshua…
2017 June in Joshua Tree National Park
My trip to Joshua Tree National Park was not without its surprises. I promised to wait one month before speaking of one of them, but there is a good reason…
2017-05-28 Red Hill At The Salton Sea
Travelling south after my expedition with the San Diego Natural History Museum to Horse Thief Springs (read more of that trip HERE) in the Mojave Desert, I could not bring myself…
2017-May At Horse Thief Springs
Horse Thief Springs on the northeastern flanks of the Kingston Mountains is one of the Joseph Grinnell restudy locations taken on by the San Diego Natural History Museum. The site…
Rat Theater Version 2.1
Processing images from the boat cruise consumed all my time this month. Recently Scott Tremor (San Diego Natural History Museum) and I camped out in our local desert to trap…
2016 Final Mojave Excursion: Birds
Perhaps it was because of the cool weather, perhaps because it was the last expedition of the season, or the combination of team members on this trip, but there was…
2016 Final Mojave Excursion: Mammals
Camping at the Granite Well site has been the coldest excursion of all the museum outings. It is good that this is the last outing until spring next year. On…
2016-11-29 Tuesday At Cottonwood Spring
Some of you may recall I stayed at this location at the end of September with the science team from the San Diego Natural History Museum. It was my first…
2016 – November Birds In The Mojave
When I’m camping with the science team from the San Diego Natural History Museum, I try to find time to meet the local birds. Autumn migration can provide some pleasant…
2016 November- Rodents in the Mojave
The expedition into the Mojave Desert with the San Diego Natural History Museum’s Bird and Mammal Science Team is almost two weeks past. With all the travelling on my return…
2016-11-08~14: Camping In The Mojave
I left Poway on Tuesday, November 8 to catch up with the Bird and Mammal team from the San Diego Natural History Museum. The science team had been at their…
2016-10-13 Pinyon Wells Critters
I recently posted about the trip I took last week to Pinyon Wells in Joshua Tree National Park with the Bird and Mammal Department of the San Diego Natural History…
2016 – Early October Camping At Pinyon Wells
I spent the second week of October with the bird and mammal department of the San Diego Natural History Museum in Joshua Tree National Park. The site is called Pinyon…
2015-08-13 Santa Rosa Mountain
I’ve worked as a photographer with the San Diego Natural History Museum (SDNHM) since 2010 on a project called the San Jacinto Resurvey. The goal of this project is to…