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Opening day!

4/27/2015

I spend October - March each year holed up inside my mid-Michigan home, safely sheltered from the clouds outside. Only a constant intake of tea and my happy lamp keep me sane while I tackle a year's worth of reading, writing, studying, and data analysis... waiting for April.

Because everyone knows April means Opening Day!

Of field season!

I don't always take selfies in the field.
But when I do, you'd better believe they're destined for this blog.

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Sick day doodles

4/22/2015

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I was home sick yesterday with some sort of cough/cold/flu virus that made my brain very cloudy, and some prescription cough syrup that made my brain even cloudier. I wasn't getting much work done, and settled on updating my webpage (minimum brain power required).

After massive upgrades to annagroves.com (yay!!) and to a better Weebly site editor, I found out I could replace the Weebly "W" icon with whatever I wanted. If you're reading this in Chrome right now, the "W" would have been up on your tab next to "Anna Groves - Hysterical Contingency." It would also have been on your bookmark toolbar, since I KNOW you've bookmarked this blog for easy access in the future.

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At the science fair

4/20/2015

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When I was a kid, my school science fair project was about nail polish. If I remember correctly, I had 2 replicates of 5 blue polishes (you know, because of my 10 fingers) to test which brand of polish would last the longest. I didn't win first prize, but this insightful question and experimental design clearly shows I was always destined for a career in science.

I took a mulligan last week at the Laingsburg Middle School Science Fair, where I presented to the 6th-8th graders alongside other volunteers from science groups in the area.

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Actually, I don't know anything about "Plant Biology" so don't ask me!

4/9/2015

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"Oh, you're studying plant biology? How fortunate! I've been dying to get someone to take a look at my maple tree..."

I'm in my third year of my Ph.D. program at Michigan State, studying restoration ecology. Or, in layman's terms, how to put nature back together. It just so happens that ecological restoration more often than not targets the plant community, which molds so many of us restoration enthusiasts into plant community ecologists. Ergo, my lab's home department, and the words on my future Ph.D. (God permitting) are "Plant Biology." The thing is, I don't know anything about plants.

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PLANT // PEOPLE

Opening day!

Sick day doodles

At the science fair

Actually, I don't know anything about "Plant Biology" so don't ask me!

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PLANT // PEOPLE

Opening day!

Sick day doodles

At the science fair

Actually, I don't know anything about "Plant Biology" so don't ask me!

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