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NATURALIST-IN-RESIDENCE MIKE HAYSLETT

(434) 381-6439
Office: Chapel 301
mhayslett@sbc.edu

Director, Virginia Vernal Pools Program

President, Central Virginia Chapter
Virginia Master Naturalist Program


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What does Sweet Briar's Naturalist-in-Residence do?

Three things:

I assist Biology faculty in organizing and conducting field projects.
I assist the College in maintaining field sites for education and research. 
I develop, organize and run natural history and natural resource workshops that use Sweet Briar's campus.

Here are some of the projects I have been involved with in 2007, 2008 and 2009


Spotted salamander surveys with Professor Fink
2007
2008


Virginia Master Naturalist Advanced Training Rallies at Sweet Briar in May 2008 and May 2009

Workshops on construction temporary wetlands, with wetlands expert Tom Biebighauser.  Shown here are the participants from the fall 2007 workshop.  We are holding a second workshop in fall 2009.

Constructing Sweet Briar's first deer exclosure, with Professors Steven and Fink, and Ecology students

Field trips with Field Natural History and Ecology students (here, examining wood frog eggs at a Nelson County pond)


Studying the distribution of red swamp crayfish in Sweet Briar's wetlands with students from the Central Virginia Governor's School


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