Max M.
@ambystomax.bsky.social
PNW Ecologist | community ecology 🦉🦌🐸 | bioacoustics 🦇🐦 | forest systems 🌲🗻🌱 | refusing to submit to despair | B.Sc. from UF WEC | views my own | 🏳️🌈 he/him
Welp, no chance of seeing the aurora in my overcast corner of the PNW, so here's some photos of the one I got to see in May of 2024 instead
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Welp, no chance of seeing the aurora in my overcast corner of the PNW, so here's some photos of the one I got to see in May of 2024 instead
Bonus: tiny falls that sound nice
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Bonus: tiny falls that sound nice
An assortment of waterfalls
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 AM
An assortment of waterfalls
Fall in western Oregon is unmatched 🍂🍁🍄 with bigleaf maple doing the heavy lifting.
November 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Fall in western Oregon is unmatched 🍂🍁🍄 with bigleaf maple doing the heavy lifting.
The turn of the season is seen in the death of the fireweed and the vine maple's changing colors, but the rhododendron doesn't seem to mind. Nice work day in the woods.
October 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The turn of the season is seen in the death of the fireweed and the vine maple's changing colors, but the rhododendron doesn't seem to mind. Nice work day in the woods.
Chipmunk is a go for launch in 10... 9... 8...
October 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Chipmunk is a go for launch in 10... 9... 8...
Another work week at Mount St Helens almost in the books 📚
Hopefully will have more to share about these projects in the near future, but I've got a looooot of data to process first.
Hopefully will have more to share about these projects in the near future, but I've got a looooot of data to process first.
September 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Another work week at Mount St Helens almost in the books 📚
Hopefully will have more to share about these projects in the near future, but I've got a looooot of data to process first.
Hopefully will have more to share about these projects in the near future, but I've got a looooot of data to process first.
The nuthatches have some things to say about this Tuesday morning.
September 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The nuthatches have some things to say about this Tuesday morning.
So many things, but mostly studying how wildlife and plant communities respond to various levels of disturbance or different forest management practices across the Pacific Northwest.
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
So many things, but mostly studying how wildlife and plant communities respond to various levels of disturbance or different forest management practices across the Pacific Northwest.
Work has me feeling a little crabby 🦀
September 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Work has me feeling a little crabby 🦀
First volunteer native in my pot with Viola adunca (another native, but a planned one)! Wind-dispersed seeds, so not surprising it found my third floor apartment balcony 🌱
July 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
First volunteer native in my pot with Viola adunca (another native, but a planned one)! Wind-dispersed seeds, so not surprising it found my third floor apartment balcony 🌱
Good evening may I interest you in Big Stump
July 23, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Good evening may I interest you in Big Stump
Another week of work at MSH in the books. I wish you could smell that photo of the lupine-covered slopes.
July 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Another week of work at MSH in the books. I wish you could smell that photo of the lupine-covered slopes.
MSH continues to delight me with her stunning landscapes. 45 years post-eruption.
July 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
MSH continues to delight me with her stunning landscapes. 45 years post-eruption.
Just a few parasites - one just emerging and one a bit past its prime.
July 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Just a few parasites - one just emerging and one a bit past its prime.
I guess if this ends up being my last week of work*, at least the scenery is pretty stellar
*I still stubbornly refuse to give up hope
*I still stubbornly refuse to give up hope
July 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I guess if this ends up being my last week of work*, at least the scenery is pretty stellar
*I still stubbornly refuse to give up hope
*I still stubbornly refuse to give up hope
Bonus flowers that didn't make the first cut. Imagine the sounds of so many busy pollinators, the song of lazuli buntings and a Swainson's thrush, and the slight buzz of cicadas at the meadow's edge.
June 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Bonus flowers that didn't make the first cut. Imagine the sounds of so many busy pollinators, the song of lazuli buntings and a Swainson's thrush, and the slight buzz of cicadas at the meadow's edge.
Favorite place to go when I need the world to make sense for a little bit.
June 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Favorite place to go when I need the world to make sense for a little bit.
Got to wear my bryologist and hydrologist hats last week working on a project at one of our experimental forests/ranges. Looking at seasonality of water flow in headwater streams and what the associated bryophyte (moss/liverwort) communities can tell us about it!
June 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Got to wear my bryologist and hydrologist hats last week working on a project at one of our experimental forests/ranges. Looking at seasonality of water flow in headwater streams and what the associated bryophyte (moss/liverwort) communities can tell us about it!
Timeline cleanse. Wet meadow full of flowers in the Blue Mountains of Oregon.
June 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Timeline cleanse. Wet meadow full of flowers in the Blue Mountains of Oregon.
How I feel 5 hours after brushing a single knuckle against Urtica dioica. Laportea was my enemy doing work in Shenandoah NP but now I'd take her back in a heartbeat.
May 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
How I feel 5 hours after brushing a single knuckle against Urtica dioica. Laportea was my enemy doing work in Shenandoah NP but now I'd take her back in a heartbeat.
Also a few scenes from the Oregon Coast today! Rhododendron is peaking right now, so glad to have it out here since it's one of my favorites from the Appalachians.
May 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Also a few scenes from the Oregon Coast today! Rhododendron is peaking right now, so glad to have it out here since it's one of my favorites from the Appalachians.