Andrew Hipp

June 4: Cicadas

Cicadas at 3 a.m., warm morning, June 4 2024: botanistsfieldnotes.com/2024/07/01/j...

GitHub - andrew-hipp/auralLandscapes: Code for documenting space-based aural landscapes Code for documenting space-based aural landscapes. Contribute to andrew-hipp/auralLandscapes development by creating an account on GitHub.

source: github.com/andrew-hipp/...

plotted using:

require(openxlsx)
a <- read.xlsx('https://github.com/andrew-hipp/auralLandscapes/blob/main/data/auralObservations.xlsx?raw=true', detectDates=T)
a$time <- a$time * 24
plotAuralLandscape(a, taxa = 'cardinal|robin', dateRange=1:11)

Revisiting field notes of sounds (time of day ~ date), recalling the cardinal gap in mid-summer. Look at how (in our area, western suburbs of Chicago) the cardinals start the year, the robins take midsummer, and the cardinals pick back up in the early morning sometime in July / August.

... and here they are unhooded:

Seductive entodon sporophytes, still wearing their hoods. Maple Grove forest preserve, the day after Christmas.

Maya Angelou, The Art of Fiction No. 119 “People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.”

"I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy—it’s serious business..."

www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2...

Effects of Brush Pile Burning in the Chicago region by  Antonio Del Vallé, Emma Leavens, Meghan Midgley Research project summary Over the past three years, we have conducted research on brush ...

A really good blog post by @mortonarboretum.bsky.social Soil Ecology researchers on their research into how brush pile burning affects restored woodlands.

woodsandprairie.blogspot.com/2025/12/effe...

Thank you, Valarie.

thank you, Keith! I'm glad you like them. It was a lovely morning.

... and 30 seconds of spring peeper song, same walk:

March 10, 2026: Woodcocks and spring peepers

Woodcocks and spring peepers this morning, foggy @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods, Crowley Marsh, Japan collection.

botanistsfieldnotes.com/2026/03/10/m...

March 7 and 8, 2026: Maple Grove

This wknd in Maple Grove.
botanistsfieldnotes.com/2026/03/09/m...

Spring beauty sprawling under the leaf litter, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods this morning.

🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics!

My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026.

We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems.

#Postdoc #EcoEvo

Pls RT!

Coming up in Maple Grove FP this weekend: wild ginger (Asarum canadense), mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum), broad-leaved wild leek (Allium tricoccum).

Chorus frogs

Notes on cranes overhead, chorus frogs and spring peepers in @mortonarboretum.bsky.social Crowley Marsh.

botanistsfieldnotes.com/2026/03/07/c...

Chorus frogs singing, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods this afternoon. And right after I took this video, a spring peeper!

Public lecture tonight 6 March 2026 is now remote only via Zoom. Please join us to learn more about ferns. #botany #ferns

Conventionally, historians look only at human remainders, such as archives and diaries... Whether or not other organisms "tell stories," they contribute to the overlapping tracks & traces that we grasp as history. History, then, is the record of many trajectories of world making...

Tsing, Mushroom

code block reading: adjName <- substitute( expr = paste( '(', bold(thisLetter), ') Reference: ', italic('Quercus '), italic(epithet), sep = ''), env = list( thisLetter = letters[counter], epithet = strsplit(i, '_')[[1]][2]) ) plot(tr, cex = 1, main = adjName)

italicizing a few words in a plot title in base R, and the code to do so is pasted in below. Such a pain.

Does anyone know a more elegant / easier way to do this?

Morning bur oak, Crowley Marsh, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods

Listening for woodcocks this morning, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods. Nothing today, but I probably arrived a bit late. Have they arrived in your area?

“Will power is trying hard not to do something you really want to do,” said Frog.

“You mean like trying hard not to eat all these cookies?” asked Toad.

“Right,” said Frog.

Around the year in Maple Grove Forest Preserve

A blog post I had forgotten about: one year in Maple Grove forest preserve in about 3 minutes:

botanistsfieldnotes.com/2019/09/08/a...

“The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we’re just passing through.” — Roger Deakin, Wildwood (pp. 14-15)

Graduate Student Grants — American Society of Plant Taxonomists

Reminder that the deadline to submit an ASPT Graduate Student Research Grant is tonight, March 2, at 11:59PM PST!
Applicants must be current members of ASPT to be considered (members.aspt.net). Apply today!

aspt.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?...

false mermaid (Floerkea proserpinacoides) false mermaid from DuPage County, IL, USA on March 2, 2026 at 08:26 AM by Andrew Hipp

Floerkea!
www.inaturalist.org/observations...

False mermaid sprouting, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods.

Sandhill cranes migrating, Downers Grove, right now