Delaware 2009 Pictures and Podcast

June 27th, 2009

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OK, I just have one final (I think this is my last…) post from the 2009 Delaware conference. It is a good one!!

–The conference pictures are now online (http://www.ableweb.org/conf/able2009/images/index.html)!  Thanks for all your contributions. (Sorry, the captions didn’t post with the images; I’ll fix it if I have time).

–Have a listen to this PODCAST — interviews of first-timers’ impressions of the ABLE 2009 conference. (a production of Marielle Hoefnagels and Mark Walvoord prompted by Paul Hyde’s major workshop)

    One Response to “Delaware 2009 Pictures and Podcast”

    1. Don Igelsrud Says:
      July 21st, 2009 at 12:58 pm

      Wow! ABLE just keeps getting better and better! Congratulations to all those new and old timers who make it so.

      I can’t go to the meetings anymore, but I’m still trying to do biology. I’ve run into a problem that ABLE members might be able to help me with.

      My doctor invited us to stay at his place on Mayne Island in the Gulf Islands. It was most relaxing. I collected a small starfish (Pisaster) from a tidepool and showed him circulation in the gills and tubefeet under a microscope I brought along. I have a simple compound B & L microscope with a mirror that’s easy to carry around. Unfortunately, a 4X lens with a widefield 10X eyepiece is a little too powerful for comfortable viewing.

      I have a B & L stereozoom microscope head I bought on eBay for a couple hundred dollars from someone in Arizona. Later, he told me he only paid a dollar for it at a flea market. The prices for used microscopes are very high! Anyway, it’s in a monstrous stand from U of A med school that I bought for a few dollars at an auction. I would carry it around if I could find the smaller stand normally used with those microscopes. Does anyone know where I might find one? I’d also love to find a heater stirrer for cooking, but they are also very scarce.

      Cheers,

      Don Igelsrud

      p.s. In case you want to know what Jon Glase is doing these days, he has a wonderful blog on TravelBlog called Wondering Naturalists – Lynn and Jon Glase. We had a nice visit with them when we were in New York last fall. Here’s a link: http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Wondering-Naturalists/

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