Monthly Archives: August 2009


The Power of Search

Some of the more astute among you may have noticed a change in the search function here at the Nature Blog Network. Back in October 2008, I added Lijit search to this site. This week, we converted to Google Custom Search. I wish we could have stuck with Lijit but had no choice but to [...]

Newest Blogs in the Network: 8-19-08

Art Peripheral Vision: Inner Sights by Lynda Lehmann – “Peripheral Vision” combines my nature photography, Abstract Expressionist paintings and digital art, with ideas about life, creative process, and preserving our planet. Backyard Dansk Farms:  Beekeeping – Adventures in Beekeeping.  Information on Backyard Beekeeping and the Environment.  Colony Collapse Disorder update. Birds The Great Bustard Group [...]

Carny Deadlines: August 18, 2009

Get your submissions in for the nature blogosphere’s best carnivals! –=====– I and the Bird #107 – to Liza Lee Miller by the end of the day today! Friday Ark #256 – to the Modulator by this this Thursday, August 20 Festival of the Trees #39 – to Arboreality by August 30 Carnival of Evolution [...]

Nature Blog Networking: Educational Programming

I come from a family of teachers.  Both my parents recently retired from over 50 combined years in the public school system, and my sister is currently starting her very first year as a science teacher.  How I avoided that fate is beyond me, there must be some aspect of their respective personalities that’s conducive [...]

Featured Blog: Southern Fried Science

Andrew Thaler blogs about deep sea biology, mycology, and general science issues as the Southern Fried Scientist. By day, he is a graduate student studying deep sea biology at the Duke University Marine Lab. David Shiffman aka Why Sharks Matter, is a graduate student in South Carolina studying shark conservation. He is the author of [...]

Community Bulletin Board – August 16, 2009

If you have news, event or classified listings that you want to share with the NBN community, send your info to me for posting on the community board, to get the word out to everyone! Submissions can be sent to sanderling [at] symbiotic [dot] ca, with the subject line “NBN Bulletin Board”. Don’t forget to [...]

Friday Roundup: August 14, 2009

One new carnival for your blog-reading pleasure… –=====– Friday Ark #256 – at the Modulator

A Most Mundane Post

Are you enjoying the hot, humid, lazy days of late summer? I am. I’ve just dropped a dear friend at the airport after her delightful visit, and then visited the newest local nature preserve, just opened two weeks ago. On the other hand, it’s not all fun and games, photos and lighthearted nature posts, this [...]

Carny Deadlines: August 11, 2009

Meet the new deadlines, same as the old deadlines. –=====– Friday Ark #255 – to the Modulator by this this Thursday, August 13 Scientia Pro Publica #10 – to Quiche Moraine by Saturday, August 15 I and the Bird #107 – to Liza Lee Miller by August 18 Festival of the Trees #39 – to [...]

Nature Blog Networking: Land of 10,000 Bloggers

What is it about Minnesota that makes blogging, and in particular nature blogging, such a popular avocation?  The NBN’s contingent of Minnesota bloggers is as strong as that from any other state  Is it the beautiful northern forests, the fabled 10,000 lakes teeming with life?  Or is the fact that nine months out of the [...]