Nearby Nature GigaBlitz entries, 12/2011
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Nature is just outside your door — in your backyard, a vacant lot next door or perhaps a stand of trees down the block.
As envisioned by a trio of biologists and their partners at Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab, the GigaBlitz involves scientists, students and amateur naturalists in a global effort to reveal the extraordinary biodiversity of the ordinary settings where people live, learn and work. Details about GigaBlitz are available at science.gigapan.org.
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In the west of Catalonia, at 120Km from Barcelona, one can find a vast flatland region, having wide sediments expanses laid over millions of years. Clusters of tiny lakes and marshes have formed naturally over the millennia. In the recent history, a century and a half ago an irrigation canal was built, the Canal d'U...
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Hiked up with my parents for Christmas. My Mom's first time to the top after living in SLO for 25 years!
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After a walk in our community we settled on a picture of a local park.
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Wasn't home on the 19th, it rained steadily the 20th through the 22nd. Finally, on the 23rd I was able to take a gigapan. FAIL - my beta unit had a failure. My husband, aka McGyver, fixed it, and I went out again on the 24th. I experienced occasional failures of the shutter snapper, hence had to delete many pictures to...
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flowers of a palm tree - dypsis lutescens, here in Brazil called "Palmeira Areca Bambu", exude a sweet smell that attracts hundreds of insects
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This image was taken at the midpoint of the Hardwood Ridge Trail in Oglebay Park, Wheeling WV. The trail runs directly below a 4H camp, and is less than a mile from the lodge at Oglebay resort. I chose the area because there was a high diversity of both plants and fungi. I have not found any animals in the gigapan y...
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Dairy Bush GigaPan - 122 - December 22 2011 Year 3 - Week 17 - 360° The urban environment is expanding at a never before seen rate. Existing natural environments within urban centres, such as forests or woodlots, are exposed to increasing anthropogenic pressures of degradation, fragmentation, biological invasion...
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- Pt Vicente Lighthouse & Catalina Island - Palos Verdes_CA December 23-2011 John Post G91 - nearbynature by John Post
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View shows whale watchers looking towards Pt Vicente Lighthouse & Catalina Island. The Pt Vicente Interpretive Center has some of the last remaining natural environment on the Palos Verdes Peninsula of Los Angeles. Nikon coolpix P5100, 91 images - ©John Post
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陸前高田市でのボランティアの様子 バスツアーできた方たちのボランティア作業の様子 松苗を育てる畑を耕す作業 冬は日が落ちるのがはやく、この日の作業は10時‐14時（12時‐13時休憩） 風が冷たかったが、ボランティアの作業で...
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名称：陸前高田一本松 概要：陸前高田には7万本の松がおいしげる松林があったが震災でほぼ流され、1本だけ残った その残った松は一本松として復興のシンボルをなった しかし、その一本松も潮水を吸ってしまいなくなってしまった ...
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