Dylan Schwilk

@schwilk

Plants and Fire. Lubbock, Texas

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Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· 2d

Kiowa National Grassland in drought. July.

Photo of a dry shortgrass prairie with an evologist kneeling o er a pvc plot frame. the plants are dry and brown. the sliver of blu sky with wispy clouds.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· 2d

Rita Blanca. July. Argemone.

zphoto of dry crispy shortgrass prairie and blu cloudless sky. Hot. the plants are brown other than the prickly poppy on the foreground wirh green leaves and white flowers.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· 8d

Living the dream, Mr Fed. We appreciate y'all. You deserve a board game.

Photograph of Great Basin NP gift shop with extensive game selection.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· 29d

Above Verde Lakes, Weminuche Wilderness, San Juans, Colorado.

Photograph of wet alpine meadow with wildflowers. beyond are quartzite cliffs and jagged peaks.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· 29d

Continental Divide Trail

Photograph of a teenage girl with a blu backpack looking out over a high elevation tundra landscape. standing next to her is a black and tan shepherd mutt dog with an orange and black backpack. the sky has clouds and threatens thunderstorms

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· 29d

Tree mortality in the San Juans

A photograph of a few remaining wooden buildings of a mining town in the mountains. the spruce forest beyond the buildings is mostly dead trees. the scene is illuminated by the last light before sunset.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jul 12

Grenadier Range, San Juans.

Photograph of a deep alpine valley, beyond which has are jagged quartzite peaks.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jul 3

All buttoned up. hitting 47F vent temps but could probably add more R134a. Getting cold sweaty low side pipes all the way back to compressor. I don't want to overcharge. I will yet win; the suburban will not defeat me.

A photograph of the engine bay of an 80s gm truck with a 6.2l diesel engine. the engine dusty other than shiny new AC parts such as accumulator on left.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jul 3

Here we go. New evaporator, new parallel flow condenser, new or cleaned lines. Compressor should be good. This truck is great but air conditioning would be nice.

photograph of an engine bay of gm 6.2 diesel.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jul 1

ok. that is a big line.

Radar image showing huge area of red -- thunderstorm lined up N-S about 100 miles long. just west of Lubbock TX

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jun 27

Thinking about how the dialog has shifted. I looked through old correspondence and letters to the editor from grad school when I received phone death threats for stating any criticism of Israel. I found my letters to the Stanford Daily. Here is a snippet from one response to a letter I wrote.

Image of text from scanned newspaper: "Schwilk states that beyond the 1967
borders — meaning in the West Bank and
Gaza — Arab subjects have no civil rights.
This sad situation, however, is the fault of
the Palestinian Authority. After all, it is in
charge of political administration in the
territories, not Israel.
He also argues that suspects are execut-
ed without trial. Targeted assassinations
carried out by Israel are only against
known Hamas and Fatah terrorists, and
only occur because the Palestinian Author-
ity itself refuses to reign in those terrorists."

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jun 27

Hanging of the San Patricios following the Battle of Chapultepec' by Samuel E. Chamberlain.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jun 14

Agave havardiana blooming. Too bad Texas Tech Grounds killed the one we had been nurturing outside the biology building since 2017. TTU cannot stand anything beautiful.

An agave with yellow flowers blooming. the background is a suburban neighborhood and a Texas sky.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jun 13

1980 Coleman 220K on left, 1926 L427 on right.

Two Coleman lanterns burning bright on a red toolbox. in the background is pegboard. the lantern on the left has a green fount and vent, the much older one on the right has a shiny nickel fount.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jun 13

L427 Quick Lite. with the original loop generator.

A Coleman pressure gas lantern with nickel fount. the circular base below the chimney has the word "quick" spelled in punched out circles.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jun 13

1926 Coleman L427 now with a mica chimney as it would have had when new.

A Coleman pressure gas lantern with a nickel fount and green vent running bright in a garage. it sits on a shiny red surface. the chimney surrounding the bright glowing mantles is mica.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jun 11

My undergrad mentor Jon Keeley visited the lab and met some of the students. Here Carlina and De'ojanae are showing him the ember production apparatus they are building.

A wide angle photograph of 4 scientists in a lab workshop room. They are standing around a cart piled with sheet metal and unistrut.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· May 21

And our previous visit to our colleagues' sites near Boulder.

Four scientists stand around a grassland plot marked by pink flagging

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· May 21

Some photos from last week's grass flammability trials with our visitors who brought Colorado species.

A PhD candidate wearing sunglasses and a stoic expression stands behind a wall of flames

An undergraduate student wearing a bright yellow fire resistant shirt holds a cellphone and is laughing

Four students stand behind a somewhat ugly barbecue type device taking notes and measurements.

A grad student in a fire resistant overshoot and wearing a baseball cap holds a butane lighter. In the foreground is a grill with a sample of grass burning.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Mar 6

Bigger tires, less lift, better clearance, more stable.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jan 29

Photograph of a snowy landscape. in the foreground is wind swept snow and an ice covered body of water. In the background, a low hill, leafless trees, a structure, and tiny dots that are children sledding.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jan 29

Lubbock ski day this past Monday

A statue of a running horse in a flat snow covered landscape against a bright blue sky

A photograph of a frozen creek taken from the middle of the ice covered channel. the creek stretches straight away from the camera and animal tracks are visible crossing diagonally. Sparse leafless shrubs and small trees l8ne the channel.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jan 1

Packed for departure

Photograph from above of a an orange pulk packed with duffel and covered with a blue tarp. Skis and a backpack are nearby. The snow is criss crossed with tracks. In the background are fir and spruce.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Jan 1

Adios 2025

Photograph of a snow covered plateau with scattered spruce and fire. Animal tracks lead from the foreground. the sky is bright blue. A gibbous moon is small in the sky.

A photograph of a yurt in a snowy subalpine landscape. it is on a raised platform and has orange walls and a light tan roof. A walkway connects the deck to a raised outhouse. Dark confers stand against snow under a blue sky.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Dec 15

Thinking of William ... I scanned a few old slides. Here is William Bond with his daughters in Jonkershoek, May 1995. Discussing Protea neriifolia.

Ecologist William Bond standing talking to two of his children in a fynbos shrubland. He is probably talking about Proteas and sugarbirds . Jonkershoek South Africa.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Dec 7

The whole lab went to the AFE fire congress last week. A great trip and much discussion and learning occurred. Here are Carlina and Puja with their posters on live fuel moisture, flammability, and plant hydraulic traits.

Photo of two fire ecologist graduate stunts in front of their posters.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Nov 17

valve body back in. appreciating warm weather and no wind for transmission work in my driveway. Someday I will have true shop and a lift.

view of an automatic transmission with cover off from beneath new filter in place and new wiring.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Nov 13

And a 1926 Coleman 427 from last month. Missing original mica shade, however.

A two mantle pressure gas lantern with nickel plated fount burning bright on a messy workbench.

Dylan Schwilk@schwilk· Nov 13