'Cinco de Mayo' 2000 celebration. Local Dance troupe, 'Flor Antiqua', performed authentic dances from Mexico. Guests enjoyed different foods from south of the border.

Hispanic students at our Fraser Career Camp.  A demonstration of the use a clinometer, an instrument used to measure tree heights.

Fun mode of travel used to reach our work site.

Sampling our winter research sites.

A 21x Campbell's scientific micrologger.  This instrument is used to monitor climate such as air temperature, wind direction and speed, solar radiation, relative humidity and rain fall.

Technician  maintaining the micrologger.  Checking that all probes are connected properly and data-logger is capturing data.

Monitoring beetle dispersal.  Rectangular traps fitted with nylon netting and coated with sticky substance to capture beetles in flight.  Technicians looking for and documenting the number of captured beetles.

A series of sticky traps positioned around several beetle infested trees to document beetle dispersal.

Another method to study beetle dispersal was to coat the tree with color pigment powder.  Beetles emerging from the infested trees would be coated with the pigment powder and would attack new trees near by.  Excavation of the beetles from the newly attacked trees would hopefully produce these beetle and give us an indication of dispersal and also the distance beetles fly and attack.  This tree is coated with green pigment powder.

A tree coated with pink pigment powder.

A YSI thermistor embedded just below the bark of a ponderosa pine tree to monitor sub-cortical bark temperatures.  This probe is connected to the data-logger that collects temperature data.