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Cin-Ty Lee

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geologist, critical minerals, geopolitics | Rice University | Princeton Field Guides to Flycatchers of North America | OM Systems | https://press.princeton.edu/our-authors/lee-cin-ty

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure what's going on. This past week I discovered Red-footed Booby, Tropical Parula, and Western Wood-Pewee... and then today, an Allen's Hummingbird from California popped up on my morning walk to school. Houston, Texas. @riceuniversity.bsky.social

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 4d

Here we go. We finally figured out where this bird disappears to. Red-footed Booby. One of very very few inland records of this seafaring bird. Houston, TX. Much better photos than yesterday's grainy shot of a flying bird from half a mile away.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 5d

In just a few days near Houston, Texas I found a red-footed booby, tropical Parula and a western wood-pewee, a truly bizarre and unlikely combination of birds.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 12d

very interesting. Thank you for sharing. You are 100% correct on all your points.

Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 13d

We found this amazing katydid in Honduras. Haemodiasma tessellata. Camouflage at its finest.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 14d

How about a coral snake up close? Foothill forests of the Caribbean slope in Honduras.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 15d

One of the most important and magical shorebird stopover sites in the country is the Bolivar Flats Bird Sanctuary in Texas. It is currently under threat from development and we are in a race to save it. houstonaudubon.org/conservation...

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 15d

A storm blew over last evening in Houston, TX. This AM, at Rice University, I was surprised to see a Vermilion Flycatcher (rare for an urban environment). While looking at the flycatcher, I saw a dragonfly I had never seen before - Twelve-spotted Skimmer! The 2nd record for our county.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 15d

Our paper by student Jia-le Mou, former student Jackson Borchardt and myself, Calibrating olivine Forsterite content as a measure of melting degree, is out. A simple and general calibration of how forsterite content varies with melting degree
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 24d

very nice piece. i enjoyed reading it.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 25d

Grace's Warbler, a bird of mountain pine forests from southwestern United States south into northern Central America. This one I photographed in Honduras.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 25d

The Fulvous Owl, a bird of mountain forests in northern Central America. Always a magical feeling when one encounters an owl deep in the woods. This one we photographed in Honduras.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 26d

The Honduran Emerald, a beautiful hummingbird endemic to the dry oak-pine forests of Honduras. I recently had the pleasure of being in Honduras to learn more about their conservation and sustainable ecoutourism efforts. Honduras has so much to offer, from birds to geology to amazing culture.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · Aug 21

Continuing on the City of Moreno Valley's (California) plan to build a 3,000 single family housing complex on the San Jacinto Fault and in the San Timoteo badlands. I have overlain the proposed development footprint onto a geologic framework. You cannot geo-engineer your way out.

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