Charlotte and Dr. Karnovsky on an early morning flight to Denver and then they flew onto Great Falls, MT
Yesterday Charlotte Chang’10, Max and I headed off to Northern Montana. Charlotte will be working on a project examining prairie bird diversity and productivity in the shortgrass prairie of northern Montana. This is the third summer a Pomona student has come out here to work on this project. Charlotte is following in the footsteps of Susie Olsen’05 and Sabrina McNew’09.
She has a grant from the Rose Hills Foundation to conduct her research.
Charlotte and Max in Great Falls, ready for adventure.
Once we arrived we drove for another 6 hours to Fort Peck, MT. On the way we saw deer, antelope, pheasants, meadowlarks, yellow headed blackbirds, willets, trains with more cars than we could count, rain squalls, cows, bison, silos, barns, horses. We played lots of “I Spy with My Little Eye.”
The Big Sky of Montana
Today was spent getting Charlotte settled into the trailer that she will be living in and posting from for the next 10 weeks. First we had to get the trailer into the trailer park.
Backing the trailer in.
John Carlson of the Bureau of Land Management got the trailer positioned and hooked up to electricity.
Charlotte fits in the trailer a bit better than John
Next Charlotte and I went food shopping at the local supermarket.
Send Charlotte your fast easy recipes! She says she has never cooked for herself.
Tune in for updates on Charlotte’s culinary and birding adventures!
