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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Cecil Schwalbe, John Burnett. Timecode In: 00:10:51. Timecode out: 00:47:42. Notes: Frog research discussion, including unidentified voices and area ambiance. John Burnett is wearing the mic. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Cecil Schwalbe, John Burnett. Timecode In: 00:54:37. Timecode out: 01:25:32. Notes: Frog research discussion, including unidentified voices and area ambiance. John Burnett is wearing the mic. Equipment Notes: 2-channel mono. One DPA mic feeding both channels. Right channel at -10dB from left channel. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Arizona Frogs Log of DAT #: 3 Engineer: Bill Deputy Date: Thursday July 18 (talk about frog legs, Texas capitalism, cameras, accents) 10:52 cecil do you end up doing most of your work at night? 10:55 on this project, well.. no, most of this one at night except that we're doing some assessments of the best way to capture tadpoles to determine what species they are and most of that's daytime work. If we are working with the toads or spadefoots themselves, they're mostly active at night but the tadpoles we can use daylight so we can see what we're doing. But this part when we're looking at the adults it's almost exclusively at night, except for occasionally when you get daytime frogs 11:34 what do you like coming out here at night, after the rain, in the Arizona desert? 11:38 to me, to a biologist, this is mecca, this is heaven, there ar so many things that are coming out, the amphibians, the reproductive ants and termites, and everything's coming out and feeding on them.. the scorpions are running around carrying babies on their back, if you're interested in biology, this ias a fantastic place to come and se what's here, and if you're a photographer it's even more fun. The sounds, the smells, when we were driving in today¿ you know, you could heard that storm. When your'e out in one, sometimes it's noiser than you like, but it's¿ I've been in the desrt now for 30 years, and I feel blessed that I got a job to stay here. 12:36 when we were driving in, it was oe of the most beautiful sunsets I've seen in a long long time. Are you still astounded by the sky? 12:43 id' just.. it changes every time, it's just absolutely glrius. You get torn. I like to photograph, but that doesn't mix very easily with research, because you're always running someplace to get somewhere breathtaking so I take holidays, and when I have vactation time I go someplace to take pictures instead of data. 13:16 where are we going now? 13:17 we're on aravokus sienna, which is a part of the b.a. National wildlife refuge, near the town of iraguaoca Arizona, and we're walking to a place called little pond, and it's the only place where we have heard bullfrogs calling this particular summer, because this is the driest summer on record in the city of Tucson in the hundred plus years of existence, and the bullfrogs have just quit calling on other places o the refuge chart, we've been marking thing.. and we think because they're sensing this incredible drought and they're willing to make much of a reproductive adjustment on a year as dry as this one was, but the ones here have been calling so we're going over to see, and maybe record some sounds and get some idea of how many males might be calling 14:22 (14:44) I think some people would be surprised that there are scientists studying frogs and toad sin the desert¿ because you think of this arid environment and you've got to go to a moist environment like a rainforest to do the best work on amphibians. 14:56 I totally agree with that, I didn't realize until I was a graduate student here quite a few years back when I was trying to look at the diversity of different types of animals and it's known that Arizona has a fantastic number of birds and reptiles, but I started looking at amph... (Notes truncated)
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- 10 Feb 2010 - David McCartt
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- 10 Feb 2010 - David McCartt
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- 10 Feb 2010 - David McCartt