Gerrit VanderWaal

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Top-down photo of a cicada viewed from the back and side. Head is pointed towards the top right of the photo.
Image of a Global Positioning System track of my movement during bumblebee survey training overlaid on a hillshade with transparent aerial imagery. My movement starts at a parking lot on the left (east) of the image, then I walk northwest to a picnic pavilion where the hosts discuss what the plan was for the evening, then we move into the prairie south and the hosts demonstrate how to use a bug net and transfer the bee to a vial for temporary storage. Remaining tracks depict my movement looking for bumblebees.
Photo of the view looking northwest on the Lake/Marshall bridgeobservation point. Railroad bridge is almost faded out due to smoke.
Perceived wall of thunderheads approaching MSP airport
A female duck and ducklings feed on aquatic plants growing on the water surface near the entrance to the pier. They are maximally adorable.
View of the east shore of Lake Crosby standing on the pier facing east. Abundant lilypads surround the pier and extend to the east shore
View of a T-shaped pontoon fishing dock common in this region's lakes from the sidewalk near its entrance facing northwest.
Image of a Global Positioning System track of my movement during buckthorn cutting overlaid on a hillshade with transparent aerial imagery. My movement starts at the north of the image where Friends of the Missisippi River staff discuss what the plan was for the evening, then we move 80 feet south and discuss the differences between buckthorn and pagoda dogwood, the native species that looks similar to buckthorn at the site. I move 300 feet south and spend the rest of the event remove limbs from buckthorn in accordance with the critical period cutting method and stripping leaves from small saplings in an effort to to kill the plants while minimizing soil disturbance.
Photo of a garage; above it and in the background, an incoming thunderstorm front with dark grey clouds.
Figure titled "The Heart of Uptown" highlights various potential developments around Lake St & Hennepin Ave.
Screenshot of Google Maps with the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities's Ferguson Hall depicted. A red X and "dude" indicate the location of the snowblower in the original post.
Night time shot of a tree with a trunk entirely broken through maybe 20 feet off the ground. Broken limb is resting on remaining limbs of tree.
Greyscale hillshade map centered on a potential alluvial fan created by the flow of the Hajduk Spring. The Missisippi River comprises the upper right of the image, the Gorge and Parkway the lower left of the image.
Concrete pedestrian island with a tire mark on the south curb of the island and its hazardous sign bent over in the direction of northbound traffic