Thursday, October 16, 2008

An autumn of bark louse taxonomy

It's a quiet autumn here in Champaign. Between the microscope and the molecular lab, I'm keeping myself busy. In the mornings, I draw insect parts.
The male parts of bark louse from Kauai --->

In the afternoons, I work on getting DNA sequenced. I'm enjoying the routine. I'm also taking a GIS course and working on content for the Tree of Life Web Project.








GIS is a nerdy delight. I'm proud to boast a bronze medal in the "Worst Map in the Class" contest.
<---Here's my entry, typos and all.

Making a map that bad took more tricks than I imagined!

2 comments:

david_dvdson said...

that is a very interesting insect, i must say you have a very good job. and what i can see, they have the same structure as Pediculosis capitis(head lice)

MattDehn said...

Post a pic of the gold medal! I'm totally using this map in my Geographic information science class!