Today I’m in Chattanooga, TN, at the Society for Conservation Biology annual meeting, where my wife Emily Coffey is giving a talk on her research in establishing ecological baselines using paleoecological analysis.
Excitingly, Nature News just published a brief article on her work! I want to point out, when the article says “Coffey and her collaborators trekked to the misty highlands of Santa Cruz”, that I’m one of those collaborators! The words trek and misty make it sound magical… which it is, of course. But let me tell you, it’s also terribly slow, painful, wet, and painful again. (As a result of my “trek” I’ve mentally categorized bracken as a “hell-fern”.)
Anyways, I’m proud of her work and happy to have been a small part of it.
