Category: Coast Environments
Guilford Point
Guilford Point 41° 15' 55.76" N, 72° 40' 30.88" W, 101° M November 25, 2019, 15:27
Ethereal marsh.
Wheeler Marsh, Milford Point, Connecticut. November 21, 2019, 41° 10' 25.25" N, 73° 6' 17.27" W, 333° M
A Field Guide to Cape Cod
Including Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Block Island, and Eastern Long Island
A Field Guide to Long Island Sound
A lavishly illustrated guidebook to the rich natural history of Long Island Sound and its New York and Connecticut coastlines.
A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico
A uniquely comprehensive guide to more than 600 species of fauna & flora along the coasts of the southeastern United States.
Glacial Lake Connecticut map
For an upcoming book project I've been working with Ralph Lewis, the former Connecticut state geologist on making my LIS geology maps and figures more accurate. Lordship and Stratford Point stick out so far in the Sound because the area was a wedge (moraine and outwash river fan) between two giant ice sheet lobes, the Hudson ...
Labrador duck drake
Labrador Duck drake (Camptorhynchus labradorius), an extinct species that once wintered off the New England and mid-Atlantic coasts. Last seen alive in 1875. A reminder that we can lose whole species, and that we stand to lose many more in the next century if we don't change our ways very soon. Photoshop illustration.
Labrador Duck (detail)
Labrador Duck drake (Camptorhynchus labradorius), head detail. Photoshop illustration.
Sassafras trees
Sassafras tree trunks, Bluff Point State Park. I've always been fascinated by the strange, twisted forms of sassafras groves.
Patrick Lynch 