Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Lamont-Doherty

  • LDEO

    Last Saturday, I went up to Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory for their annual Open House. I’ve passed the sign on 9W several times over the years, and really only noticed the “observatory” part of the sign; I thought it was an astronomical observatory, built before city and suburb light pollution pretty much ruined East…

    mthew

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