https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAB4vOkL6cE Back from the river ! Lots of people qualify a river trip as an experience of a lifetime. Well, I understand why. Some highlights for me were : learning to row a raft, swimming in amazing waterfalls, watching and learning lots about stars and constellations every night, and still being stunned from the ca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KaWSOlASWc Last weekend I went coring some pines for my project next to Alto Springs, north of Flagstaff. It was windy and the springs were hard to find, but the view made it worth to work during the weekend.On Sunday I went to Sedona, a touristic place South of Flagstaff, known for its moutain biking and hiking in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knJCjwZFTgw&index=3&list=RDQrzyCKJ8eKU You know summer has arrived in Flagstaff when "dancing on the square" starts. Every year the city organizes weekly salsa and swing dancing, outside, at sunset. It gets very busy and people from all ages and all dancing background join. I love it! I am now juggling my time betwee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfFi4Q7ueA8 Some 700 miles away from Flagstaff, Elko is located North of Nevada, not far away from the Ruby Mountains. Nevada is known as being the driest state of the US, but it rained on us for 10 days straight. We had some sunshine as well, which let us survey some springs - the purpose of this trip. We were two t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS4TuTLrX7Y Spring is here, but we still alternate sunny days with 20 grades, with cold days where it's sometimes even snowing ! It snowed on the first of May. Nevertheless, there are a lot of prairie dogs who woke up and are now my new neighbours. I took advantage of one of the sunny weekends to bike to the Grand Ca

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnbl94GZ6TM After finishing up everything for my master and graduation, my family visited me. It was perfect timing as I could take some time off after having submitted my thesis, and before publishing the article. We used that time efficiently, and I guided them through the wilderness of Northern Arizona. We watched

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu577tNp1hA&list=RDMMlnbl94GZ6TM&index=43 Lake Powell, Horseshoe bend, Grand Canyon (again), Arizona Hot Springs, hiking... My last weekends have been quite busy. The weekdays are busy too, switching from field work to lab work, then to writing and microscopes, which makes everything busy. But don't get me wrong, I l

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NefEu2knPyk My internship subject is about dendrochronology/dendroclimatology, which are long words to say that I study tree rings. Dendrochronology has actually been discovered in Arizona, so it is pretty cool that I get to work on it here. My project is to define whether springs flow affect the growth of the trees.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1oHBcTdKL4 In between the microscope and the statistics software, I have been doing a few hikes.First Humphreys peak (3851 m), overlooking Flagstaff, another hike next to Sedona, south of Flagstaff, and a last one north of Flagstaff, called the Redmountain Trail. In Sedona I saw the Spirit cave, the wind tunnels, an

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrzyCKJ8eKU New Mexico also gets monsoon weather, so our field trip was pretty wet. I caught a beautiful dragonfly, helped taking water chemistry and drew springs sketch maps. The landscapes were not too different from Arizona, with lots of forests. The sunsets were amazing because of the monsoon clouds, reflecting w