Recently, I took my Bio 112 students out on the Cape Fear River on board one of our school’s research vessels.  Jason Rogers, the chair of CFCC’s marine tech department was the leader of our trip.  He gave us this opportunity for a hands-on field trip  where we learned about different species of fish, crustaceans (the very [...]

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“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books”  John Lubbock Every semester, I take my students to various “outdoor classrooms” where we can appreciate not only individual organisms but also the beauty of [...]

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One of my students last semester brought in this gem, an exact replica of the front tooth of a T-rex!  The detail, size, and weight of the tooth was so realistic, I felt like I was holding a real fossil!  This tooth belonged to a famous T-rex named “Stan” (named after its discoverer) that was [...]

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I needed to clean up a lot of debris in my yard after hurricane Irene passed in the fall of 2011.  Underneath the large limb of a sweetgum tree, I found this!  I was surprised because I had never seen one before - you know, it is very exciting for a field biologist to see something new in the [...]

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