#HiddenUT: Butterflies of Brackenridge Field Laboratory

http://www.utexas.edu/know/2014/07/30/hiddenut-theres-more-to-ut-than-you-know/ There’s probably only one course at the university in which students are assigned an entire acre of land filled with trees, wildflowers, buzzing insects and birds: Professor Larry Gilbert’s field ecology class at the Brackenridge Field Laboratory (BFL). For the first part of every semester, that acre at BFL becomes a personal laboratory in which students practice methods of field ecology, including learning how to perceive ecological patterns, frame hypotheses, collect data in the field, analyze the data and write professional-quality lab reports. “I designed a course that I would have wanted to take when I was an undergraduate in the days before BFL,” says Gilbert. Videography by Thomas Humphreys Music by Aaron Ximm http://www.quietamerican.org/