Four years ago I created a series of podcast lectures for UConn’s First Year Honors Seminar Section 009 – Climate Underground. They circulated on the commercial site Podbean so students should share them for comment as part of the course pedagogy. Below, I move them to a public site Kaltura within the university’s domain.
Link here for the Introduction to the blog.
One of my accomplishments from the summer of 2025 was to work with the video producers at UConn’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning to create the first batch of training videos to help you describe your stonewalls as part of inventory. The goal is to facilitate a consistent scientific description of stone walls across New England (and elsewhere) so they can be treated statistically and compared from site to site and region to region. For general information, visit the Stone Wall Initiative website.
In July 2025 I began upgrading my website with the help of Bri Diaz in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. I’m now in the process of deleting, updating, and rewriting many of the pages. Please bear with me the inconvenience of a site under construction.
One of the additions to the upgraded site is a tab on the homepage titled “Earthly Matters,” which will be my site for random blog postings about whatever catches my attention.
Image of UConn students walking the trail at Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord, MA on one of my field trips. The trail is cut into steep collapse slope at the angle of repose for sand and gravel. This is the table of contents page for the first ever Guide to Walden Pond, which I published in 2018 to commemorate the bicentennial of Thoreau’s birth year.