Mike Hamilton

Field biologist from Cal Poly Pomona (B.S., M.S. Biology), where early work in electronic monitoring of pollination ecology foreshadowed a career of instrumenting nature. Ph.D. at Cornell (1983) in science-based wilderness management and rare plant ecology. Twenty-six years directing the James Reserve, ten at Blue Oak Ranch. Co-PI of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing.

Running Canemah Nature Laboratory from Oregon City, above Willamette Falls—an independent research station with weather stations, acoustic bird monitors, soil sensors, and air quality instruments. The data feeds the Macroscope, a lifetime project to make ecosystems legible through technology.

Systems thinker, photographer, birder, botanizer, iNaturalist contributor, drone pilot, web engineer, and vibe coder. Writing weekly at Coffee with Claude—essays at the intersection of ecology, technology, and human observation.