Nina Kappel 🫎👩🏼‍💻

Isle Royale Meese.

[Amazing photo of Meese by Carl TerHaar] #Indigisky #Wildlife

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This could only be more Canadian if it was taken at a Tim Horton's drive through.

Catching up on my stats homework doing some data tidying, and I think this might be the funniest thing I’ve ever typed in R. #starwars #Rcoding

Remains, artifacts could soon be repatriated to Wabanaki tribes in Maine. It hasn’t always been that easy. A 1990 federal law requires museums and cultural institutions to inventory remains or items thought to be funerary. But that process is often drawn out and doesn't always run smoothly.

The set of human remains and other artifacts had been cataloged in the collection at Yale University’s Peabody Museum for decades.
So, why did it take so long for those items to be linked to and offered back to Wabanaki tribes in Maine?

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Man I love Maine. I know she’s not everybody’s cup of tea (especially in the winter) but she’s definitely mine.

So I went on my morning walk for my ✨mental health✨ and came across this little dude. #HappyThanksgiving

Essentially deer can give themselves osteoporosis in order to have very controlled bone cancer.

I’m not totally certain about physiology behind antler growth (I’m a spatial ecologist) but I do know that antler “velvet” is highly vascularized and deer are able siphon off calcium from their skeleton to support antler growth.

Howdy from your neighbors down south!

Antlers are the fastest growing bones in the world. Within 3 years the amount of bone produced by a male elk for its antlers is roughly equal to the amount of bone that makes up their entire skeleton.

Key takeaways from Maine’s new climate action plan The updated plan to be released Thursday sets new targets for energy efficiency and aims to ensure that all Maine residents benefit from the state's responses to climate change.

The Maine Climate Council is scheduled to release the state’s new climate action plan on Thursday, delivering an ambitious blueprint for how policymakers can accelerate the state’s transition to a clean energy economy and prepare for the impacts of climate change.

Has anyone created a #biometrician or #populationecology starter pack yet ?

In the field of conservation I feel like choosing to still care is one of the most challenging and yet most important parts of our job.

I think the thing I am most grateful for when it comes to my math education is learning to code. I really struggled with math growing up ( I still remember my 4th grade math teacher berating me for struggling with long division) and coding opened up a whole world to me

So with the new influx of folks from 🐦 I guess it might be a good time to (re) introduce myself.

Hi I’m Nina and I’m and master’s student at UMO focusing on the spatial ecology of Moose affected by winter-tick on Penobscot nation lands in Maine.

#ecology #wildlifebiology #conservation #scicomm

Come to Maine! It’s awesome! If you have any questions about what it’s like to live here shoot me a DM!

Not a carnivore ecologist but a big game gal. Can I still join? I wanna know what you all are put to!!!

Eclipse Clouds xkcd.com/2915

I think that that would be a safe assumption given my experience 😂

Nina Kappel on Instagram: "The first signs of spring are emerging…It appears I’ve been blessed with a pretty mild winter this year…I hope. Since starting my masters I’ve been spending lots of time loo... 1 likes, 0 comments - terra_incognina on March 16, 2024: "The first signs of spring are emerging…It appears I’ve been blessed with a pretty mild winter this year…I hope. Since starting my m..."

Some thoughts about the impact of photography on our understanding of wildlife.

LA's Largest-Ever Land Back an 'Important Step' in the Movement - Native News Online

An Indigenous tribe in Los Angeles recently got 12 acres of their land back! Native orgs made the largest LA land purchase for the Tongva Gabrielino Shohone Nation, including Anawakalmekak, a Native Mexica school that teaches Nahuatl to the Mexican diaspora. This is inter-Indigenous solidarity

If you find a way to keep Elk from rubbing on your cameras and stakes I’d love to know how. I lost at least one camera this summer because a bull moose thought it would be a great place to scratch 🥲 Not to mention bears really love playing with my snow stakes.

Yay! 😁 I missed the ecology folks from 🐥💙

That being said I’m pretty sure I shotgunned a semester’s worth of learning into 5 days and my brain 🧠 hurts.

Had the absolute pleasure to attend an intro to occupancy modeling workshop this week with Dr. Darryl Mackenzie. It was great! Not only did we go over single and multi season models but I think this is the first time I got formal instruction on linear models and it was incredibly helpful.

I would like to join but I don’t have a researchgate/google scholar and my advisor doesn’t have a website. Is the link to the current graduate students page ok?

umaine.edu/wle/graduate...