Matt Guilliams, Kristen Hasenstab, and Mike Silveira relax atop
Eagle Peak (Santa Cruz Co., CA), after the hike up to collect plants.

Kristen Hasenstab scales a ridge at Joshua Tree National Park
(Riverside Co.), searching for the elusive plant Cryptantha.

Matt Guilliams collects his Calyptridium monospermum plants,
Sandhills (Santa Cruz Co., CA).

Steve Thomas describes just how big that spider was to Shahan
Derkarabetian and undergraduate Joe Deas.

Shahan Derkarabetian, Maureen McCormack, and Ryan Fawcett
pose by the French Broad river in the southern Appalachians.

Dean Leavitt, Jim Starrett, and Robin Keith just goofing around.

Justin Hoesterey prepares DNA samples from tule mosquitoes
for mtDNA sequencing.

Anna Mitelberg works with the San Diego Tracking Team
to collect deer scat for DNA fingerprinting with microsatellites.