Noll Steinweg

Hello from the east coast!The vernal pools in Massachusetts are finally coming alive after a cold winter.In the last two weeks we've deployed all ten of our water level loggers to track changes in ...

Thanks to all of you backers our project is now 100% funded! We're headed over to Massachusetts in the first week of March to set up monitoring equipment and get familiar with the landscape. Thin...

We found this northwestern salamander egg mass yesterday at a wetland in western Washington. What you're looking at in the photo below are embryos (brown dots) suspended in a firm jelly layer. No...

A pile of cascades frogs waiting to be weighed and measured!

Okay folks, we've lowered our goal to $1200 from our initial goal of $3500. Which means we're 73% funded now!What this means for our project: Our project will happen this spring! We have six dep...

Over the years, we've used a few different methods to monitor wetland hydrology. We started off with transects of Maxim iButton data loggers at depth intervals in ponds. The iButtons we use track t...

Here's a frog sitting in an ice bath on top of a snow-covered lake. The frog has emerged from under the ice where it spent the winter and it now trying got move around and find a mate. Being cold...

Here's a photo of a tadpole we found at a lake with fish. At this lake, the only amphibians we found were in the very shallow water around the perimeter of the lake, hiding out among emergent vege...

In the photo below we're removing monitoring equipment from a pond which froze earlier than we anticipated. Our old monitoring method used 5-8 small temperature tracking devices distributed along ...