Check out these beautiful close-up photos that were beamed back to us from the Cassini Spacecraft near Saturn! http://ewao.com/2017/04/28/cassini-beams-back-the-closest-ever-images-of-saturn/

Organic Materials: Team Water! Team Ice! Check this out!

Alice Oswald: Evaporations

Beach Birds: Merce Cunningham

Beach Birds by choreographer Merce Cunningham (clip)

Hi, friends!

The Unconventional Magellanic here!  As mentioned in our final class today, I decided to write songs for each of my poems. I know I wrote the link down on the board, but just in case you pop over here for a visit, here it is:

https://soundcloud.com/the-unconventional-magellanic/sets/the-pleiades-project


It's been such a joy getting to know you all this semester, and I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors!

Pacific Ocean Word Hoard

North Equatorial Current: “a significant Pacific and Atlantic Ocean current that flows east-to-west between about 10° north and 20° north. It is the southern side of a clockwise subtropical gyre.”

Trade winds: “are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator”

Mar pacifico: “peaceful sea”

Gyre: “any large system of circulating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements.”

Andesite line: “the most significant regional distinction in the Pacific. A petrologic boundary, it separates the deeper, mafic igneous rock of the Central Pacific Basin from the partially submerged continental areas of felsic igneous rock on its margins”

Mafic igneous rock

Aleutian arc

Subduction zone: “a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle”

Rodinia: a renaming of Pangaea (with a different proposed configuration)

Hypoxia: low oxygen levels

Grey whale

Monterey

Carmel

Highway one

Elephant seal

Pacific sanddab

California halibut

Starry flounder

California lizardfish

Rubberlip seaperch

Spiny dogfish

Wolves Hoard

Canis lupus-Scientific name for the gray wolf

Canis lupus familiaris- Dogs

Canis rufus-Red wolf

Cache

Rendezvous site

Ungulate-mammals with hoofs like deer or elk. The main pray for wolves

Pups

Canidae

Apex predator

Keystone species

Active Submission

buffer zone

carrion-decaying meat, wolves will only eat it if there is no fresh meat available

disperser

ecological niche

extirpate-To exterminate or wholly destroy a species in an area. ☹ America used to pay people to kill wolves.

guard hairs

hackles

scent post

pelage

Wild Writing

"At the Edge of the Woods: Why Writers Need Wilderness," is an interesting read in light of our earlier discussions this semester about "wildness" and if wild spaces still exist. Also, this time thinking about how this contributes to who we are as writers.

"Living near the woods has reminded me of an intense and strange power of imagination. If I ever stop wondering about the world--if I ever think I know all the secrets of the woods--I should stop writing. Until then, I'll head into the forest, thankful and ready."