Photo Gallery
Pickleweed Inspired Art!
Pickleweed inspired linocut print by Ren Luevano.
Comic inspired by survival data collection by Moe McConnell.
Kerstin and Inger-Marie collecting crab traps from Hester channel for ESNERR biological monitoring, Mar 2025.
Linked crabs, ESNERR biological monitoring, Mar 2025.
Hand full of shrimp during ESNERR biological monitoring, Mar 2025.
Spergularia marina with an insect in the flower, Mar 2025.
Stipules of Spergularia marina at Hester Marsh, Mar 2025.
Spergularia and Salicornia at one of Emma's experimental tags, Mar 2025.
Spergularia macrotheca flowers, Mar 2025.
Lupine in Hester grassland, Mar 2025.
Possible Spergularia sp. from afar, image taken through binoculars, Mar 2025.
Spergularia on a trail path, Mar 2025.
Spergularia sp. flower, Mar 2025.
Collected Spergularia sp. material, Mar 2025.
Oak Marsh Loop, Mar 2025.
Salicornia pacifica colonizing Hester Phase 3 channel banks, Mar 2025.
Frankenia salina colonizing Hester Phase 3 channel banks, Mar 2025.
Field notes while collecting Spergularia in Hester, Mar 2025.
Chat during Oak Marsh Loop trail hike, Mar 2025.
Emma showing Emily Bruns some Spergularia on the Oak Marsh trail, Mar 2025.
Emma holding a sculpin when assisting with ESNERR biological monitoring, Feb 2025.
Hester Marsh Channel, Jan 2025.
Yompah Marsh, Jan 2025.
Yompah Marsh, Jan 2025.
Hester Marsh, Jan 2025.
Hester Marsh, Jan 2025.
Undergraduate student Ren, Estuarine Ecologist Rikke Jeppesen, and Research Biologist Susie Fork smiling after some planting.
Wide shot of a completed set of plantings.
Undergraduate student Ren planting.
Undergraduate student Ren out at Hester.
Plovers searching for food, Jan 2025.
Emma examining a transplant.
Crew eating lunch on top of Yompah hill after planting experiments, Jan 2025.
CCCs planting, Jan 2025.
CCCs planting, Jan 2025.
CCCs planting, Jan 2025.
CCCs planting, Jan 2025.
Wide shot of completed planting, Jan 2025.
Walk down to Hester Marsh from access point.
Undergraduate volunteers Abby, Mahaila, Moe, and Jasmine posing with some pickleweed, Nov 2024.
Pickleweed clustered around a channel at Hester Marsh, Nov 2024.
Volunteer crew (Jasmine, Abby, Mahaila, Moe) and Emma having lunch, Nov 2024.
Hester marsh, channel view.
Flowering pickleweed.
Flowering pickleweed.
Flowering pickleweed.
Emma showing undergraduate volunteer Mahaila how to evaluate plant survival.
Undergraduate volunteers Abby and Mahaila collecting data.
Undergraduate volunteer Abby collecting soil samples.
Undergraduate volunteer Mahaila at Hester.
Emma collecting soil samples with undergraduate volunteer Abby.
Example soil collection using soil core.
Research biologist Susie Fork and undergraduate volunteer Abby collecting soil.
Undergraduate volunteer Abby collecting soil.
Pickleweed transplant after a few months.
Close up of Atriplex sp.
Close up of the "halo" of seeds around a dead Spergularia.
"Halo" of seeds around a few dead Spergularia.
Marsh plants.
Close up of Spergularia sp. flower.
Comparison of Spergularia seeds.
Comparison of Spergularia flowers.
Close up of Spergularia sp. flower. Surrounded by pickleweed and pacific dodder.
Larvae found in Spergularia sp. flower.
Undergraduate volunteers Autumn, Summer, Dillon and Ren braving the rain.
Undergraduate volunteers Moss and Dillon collecting data.
Undergraduate volunteers collecting data.
Undergraduate volunteers collecting data.
Transplanted pickleweed after a few months.
Transplanted Frankenia salina.
Transplanted pickleweed being taken over by a large patch of Spergularia.
Vegetative patch of Spergularia sp.
High tide overtopping Hester marsh.
Some plovers hanging out by the experiments.
Flags of Dec 2023 experiment.
Emma with CCCs planting, Dec 2023.
Wide shot of holes dug for experiments, Dec 2023.
CCCs digging holes with post hole diggers, Dec 2023.
Emma flagging sites for experiment, Nov 2023.
Work at Hester Marsh.
Hester marsh.
Soil collection from high marsh.
Color range visible on pickleweed stem, reddish at the base, green towards tips.
Flowering pickleweed in front of field note paper, reduced styles visible.
Pickleweed across a channel.
Happy pickleweed.
Pickleweed stand.
Close up of flowering pickleweed stem.
Close up of pickleweed stem.
Emma out in a happy marsh helping monitor ecotone transition zones.
Close up of pickleweed stem in fall.
Pacific dodder (parasitic plant) on pickleweed.
Flowering Frankenia salina.
Close up of Spergularia rubra.