15 June 2011
Posted by Callan Bentley
Two macrobugs from yesterday’s field trip to the Rockfish River area south of Charlottesville…
… a really fast orange-and-maroon grub:
…and an elegant fly:
We also saw some rocks, but I’ll have to blog about them later because right now I have to pack up for summer travels.
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
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