Coweeta LTER Podcasts
Browse by
Recent Submissions
-
Bird Banding at the Tessentee Preserve Part 3: Banding Birds
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)Researchers band a female cardinal and collect information about her health. -
Bird Banding at the Tessentee Preserve Part 2: Capturing and Identifying Birds
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)Coweeta LTER Research Technician Daniel Sollenberger shows us how to catch birds with a mist net in order to band them and evaluate their health. -
Bird Banding at the Tessentee Preserve Part 1: MAPS Project Overview
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)Mark Hopey describes the MAPS Project, which has been studying bird decline across the Americas for the past two decades. -
Measuring Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor Exchange in Forests, Part 2
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)In order to validate the wind current data and understand how different tree species contribute to gas exchange, Dr. Steven Brantley explains, researchers use specialized sensors to measure sap flows and water use in a ... -
Measuring Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor Exchange in Forests, Part 1
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)Dr. Steven Brantley, a University of Minnesota post-doc working at the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory of the US Forest Service, explains how researchers are studying wind currents in order to measure the flow of gases (like ... -
Invasive Species: Japanese Stiltgrass
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)Dr. Robert Warren of Buffalo State University discusses Japanese Stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum), a shade-tolerant invasive species that crowds out native plants and changes soil chemistry. Because Japanese stiltgrass ... -
Bird Nest Predation in Suspended Housing Developments, Part 2
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)Camille Beasley, a graduate student from the University of Georgia, checks the artificial nests that she and her colleagues are using to study bird predators' behavior. They are using the nests, bite marks, and cameras to ... -
Bird Nest Predation in Suspended Housing Developments, Part 1
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)Camille Beasley and Elle Law, graduate students from the University of Georgia, lead local teachers on a bird survey while Camille explains her research on bird predation and the studies that first sparked her interest in ... -
The Land Trust for the Lower Tennessee (Mainspring Conservation Trust) Biomonitoring Program, Part 5
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)A photo and video scrapbook illustrating the different fish species that local teachers and Coweeta staff caught while electrofishing with Dr. Bill McLarney, Biomonitoring Program Director for the Land Trust for the Little ... -
The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (Mainspring Conservation Trust) Biomonitoring Project, Part 4
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)Teachers do an electroshock survey of fish on the Cullasaja River. Dr. Bill McLarney, Biomonitoring Program Director for the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, identifies and describes a Whitetail shiner (Cyprinella ... -
The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (Mainspring Conservation Trust) Biomonitoring Program, Part 3
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)Teachers do an electroshock survey of fish on the Cullasaja River. Dr. Bill McLarney, Biomonitoring Program Director for the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, identifies and describes an endemic crayfish(Cambarus ... -
The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (Mainspring Conservation Trust) Biomonitoring Program, Part 2
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)Teachers do an electroshock survey of fish on the Cullasaja River. Dr. Bill McLarney, Biomonitoring Program Director for the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, identifies and explains the ecological role of several ... -
The Land Trust for the Little Tennessee (Mainspring Conservation Trust) Biomonitoring Program, Part 1, Using fish as bioindicators of stream health in the Cullasaja River, NC
(Coweeta LTER, 2008)Teachers do an electroshock survey of fish on the Cullasaja River. Dr. Bill McLarney, Biomonitoring Program Director for the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee, identifies and explains the ecological role of several ...