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Pam Birley’s Images of Race Rocks 2004-2013

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newportOn this page are links to the monthly photo diaries taken on the remote cameras at Race Rocks from 2004 to 2013  by the late Pam Birley of Leicestershire England These albums were due to her almost daily commitment for a decade.  She produced a valuable record of events with her unique screen captures from Camera 5 , Camera 1 and the underwater Camera 2.

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September, 2010 October, 2010 November,2010 December 2010
May, 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010
January, 2010 February, 2010 March 2010 April 2010
September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 December, 2009
May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009
January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009
December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008
August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008
January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008
January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007
May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007
September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 Dec. 2007
The full collection of previous monthly Race Rocks albums done by Pam Birley November 2004 to October 07 is now at: http://tinyurl.com/2adrsp

One of Pams first submissions to us was in this set of images of eagle predation in 2004

 

 

Bald Eagles in the Rain

 

 

 

 

Bad Hair Day for the Eagles

 

 

 

 

Pams images of  Snowy Owls were a first for Race Rocks

 

 

Feature Article on Pam Birley: From:  TheThunderbird.ca News, analysis and commentary by UBC Journalism students Former Pearson College student Marc-Fawcett-Atkinson and Annie Rueter have published the following article in  about our most consistent contributor to the website, Pam Birley of Leicester England. B.C. wildlife 

 

Live Wildlife for your Living Room
ref: Anderson, Charlie,
The Province, Vancouver, B.C. ( Sunday, Nov.21, 2004
“Long Distance Monitoring, the effective Citizen Science of Pam Birley” has been has been published on page 10 of the December 2010 Issue of the Friends of Ecological Reserves log.

Pam and Dennis  Birley vist Race Rocks in 2008

 

 

This link brings up all the posts involving Pam Birley

MEASUREMENT OF SURFACE AREA USING “NIH IMAGE”

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The image that you have available must be either a .Tiff or a .Pict . You may download the full screen version of this image, pool5.jpg and then convert it to one of those formats using graphics converter or Photoshop or any suitable image handling program.The image of the tide pool shown here has a 1 meter ruler in it . An object of known length must be present in the picture in order to do measurements.

1. Open NIH image using the small black microscope icon. (If you do not have NIH Image installed on your computer you may download it here. download NIH Image ( available in Mac or PC )

2. Open the image “pool5.pict” that you have made by downloading the “pool5.jpg”.

3. From the TOOLS pop-up menu in NIH Image, select the SELECT LINES tool ( the dotted line fifth from the top of the right hand column).

4. Click and drag the select lines tool over the one meter image in the picture.

5. Click on the top Menu bar item ANALYZE, then move down to SET SCALE

6. In the SET SCALE box, set the units to centimeters. Set the KNOWN DISTANCE to 100., press “OK“

7. Select the region to measure using the freehand selection tool, ( fourth down on the Tools bar– heart shaped dotted line.)

8. Outline the area to be measured by tracing the perimeter of it with this tool.

9. CLICK on ANALYZE– OPTIONS – in the tool bar.

10 .Click in the boxes for Perimeter and Area. ( Other options may be tried after this basic step has been mastered.)

11. Click on ANALYZE — MEASURE –ANALYZE–SHOW RESULTS . Now you should see the calculated area and perimeter in the results box.

Further information on page 6 of the “NIH Image” direction manual