Marshall Website

As a graduate student I have to launch and maintain a personal website for Marshall University. Now I admit I'm not the most creative web designer but I did create this all from hand coding, which was rusted some in the absence of practice. Take a look if you want to know more about my research, if you just want to read more about my adventures, stay tuned.

http://www.marshall.edu/herp/Grad_Students/Nathan%20Shepard/nathan.html

Not everything is up and running, but hopefully will be soon. I have a newer, revised version I will upload soon enough with my CV and a couple other research topics.

Light Room 3 beta

Light Room 3 beta public is out and I downloaded a copy last night. So far its everything I've needed in one nice clean package. The ability to edit from RAW files is great and not only to batch convert to jpg but to resize, watermark, and add a custom title all my edited photographs in one big batch is great! Not only that but I can the upload them all to flickr right from LR. Its everything a photographer needs, unlike to the full versions of photoshop, which are designed with broader aims. I can't believe it took me this long to actually try Light Room. Sweetness. Below are some try outs (decent photographs that needed a touch up).

cirrigera vs. bislineata

The variable life of Eurycea.......

vs.

Thamnophis sirtalis

I believe no one argues that the Eastern Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) is the most common snake in West Virginia. At least if they do, I've got a post for them. These all are from 2009.

Mountain Top One:


Mountain Range Two:


Mountain Range Three:

(in-situ)

Mountain Range Four:


Mountain Range Five (my favorite specimen, only one captured at this location.)


Bonus: Individual from OH, just over the river from WV.


Though the most common snake in WV, this species is quite variable. From range to range and individual to individual variation is high.