Ethan Alpern

A mid-17th-century Jamestown family harvests the fruits of their labors, including squash, pumpkins, apples and corn (Sidney E. King, artist) October 12, 1810 was the royal event of the year, when all citizens of Munich, Germany attended the wedding of Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig (later to become King Ludwig I) and his bride, Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen, on the fields in front of the city gates.

Year Published: 2018 A guide to processing bat acoustic data for the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) The North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) aims to improve the state of conservation science for all species of bats shared by the United States, Canada, and Mexico. To accomplish this goal, NABat offers guidance and standardized protocols for acoustic monitoring of bats. In this document, “A Guide to Processing Bat Acoustic Data for the...

We all like to plan ahead for the future by keeping priceless possessions in vaults, depositing money into savings accounts for the future, and even posting and saving photo collections to the cloud via social media. The Earth also likes to store and preserve its resources for the future, and some of the Earth’s freshwater resources are kept in aquifers. An aquifer is an underground, water-bearing rock formation that provides groundwater to wells and springs.