I have a feeling this channel will gain more views in the near future.
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
I hope your feeling is correct! :) thank you
@rufeilrahtieh7885
3 жыл бұрын
@@Geobeck It would not be the first time. Greetings from Iceland
@bonvoyage5377
3 жыл бұрын
just found you thanks to the events in iceland!!. really good stuff, super interesting/informative. Ignore the trolls, youre doing a great job, greetings from the UK.....subbed
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
thanks a lot, I appreciate it!
@Stadtpark90
3 жыл бұрын
same. - and I love the hair.
@danielirvin4420
3 жыл бұрын
Hello from Nova Scotia where our damp forests and granites give us some wonderful lichens. Very much enjoying your videos.
@daviddiazarias2762
3 жыл бұрын
Great video I love the way you explain 😎 choro :)
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
thank you!!
@zakelwe
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks GB for this intro to lichens. I can see what I will be looking for on my next dog walk ! :)
@laural3738
3 жыл бұрын
Your videos are so refreshing! I 💖 the way you find beauty in the little things that we have before our eyes every day but that people mostly consider insignificant and not worthy of attention. I hope your channel will have the success it deserves.
@Geobeck
2 жыл бұрын
this is such a sweet comment, thank you so much.
@brianbergeron2172
2 жыл бұрын
Nice educational video. I love that you spend your time in the "Gunks". I spend a lot of my time there as well. Such a beautiful spot!
@ispearedbritney
3 жыл бұрын
So happy you brought up the relationship between the seemingly "inanimate" geological material and the ubiquitous fungi on our planet. Have you heard of or read Merlin Sheldrake's 'Entangled Life'? Love Your informative and fun vids!
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
Yes! I love that lichens are pretty much the link for rocks to go from “dead” to turning into living soil. Everything is so interconnected, it’s awesome. And yes I have read that! It’s actually the book I’m talking about/read the quote from in the beginning 😊 I loved that book so much and I just bought ‘Underland’ by Robert Mcfarlane , partly because I saw it in the bookstore a while ago and partly because Merlin talks about that author and book in Entangled Life 🤓
@djmillhaus
3 жыл бұрын
Glad that despite your great love for rocks you can still resist eating them ;-) Thx for this great video
@stevek5332
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent, educational, videos, Beck! Was that the Skagit River (lots of bald eagles)? I saw one video from an Icelandic naturalist who was discussing the moss and lichens growing (very slowly) on the lava fields. He will only use rubber boots to create the least amount of damage. 🤔 Have you ever visited the big island of Hawaii? That must also be fascinating. I'm lichen your efforts. 😉 Please keep it up! 👍
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
thank you so much! I remember in one of my geology classes while in college, seeing photos of what all the moss looks like on lava rocks in Iceland and wanting to go visit and see it in person so badly. I've never visited Hawaii, not yet at least! That's next on my list after Iceland. I'm sure in both places I would find some really amazing lichens to look at. And no, not the Skagit River, I'm not sure where that is?
@HeartFullOfForest
3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha, love that pun..... I really love these videos so much! I thought that beard lichen was a moss too. We have so much of it here and I want to pick some because it's soooo pretty but it's not allowed :( If they chop down more forest here I'm going to sneak out and get some though.
@alkaajani1083
3 жыл бұрын
Loved this nature ... thank you for sharing....
@noelplouffe6245
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Geo Beck
@hazardousmaterials1284
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! A small departure from geology, and a very informative one!
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
thank you!! I'm always thinking of ways that the rest of the world connects to geology and it was fun to include a part of that in this video. I highly suggest reading the book 'Entangled Life' if this kind of topic interested you :) (it's the book I quoted in the intro)
@alyssamcalister1115
3 жыл бұрын
What I was trying to say before the wind rudely interrupted me- immediately gets interrupted by an add lol
@MarcoRoepers
3 жыл бұрын
Fascinated by lichens too. They even grow on plastic.
@joshmo141x
Ай бұрын
You’re my new favorite channel ❤ gentlemen go get yourself a cute science girl they’re the best 😊
@thirstfast1025
3 жыл бұрын
I have a good sense of the lichenometry at my latitude in my region. Quite useful occasionally.
@BigJoeKasulischannel
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and teaching us many things about our area and best of all to look down and appreciate the little things. Thanks for inspiring us to Get up, Get out and enjoy our lands while we can. p.s. Please don't cover up natural beauty with makeup... You don't need it. Cheers!
@GumriRN
3 жыл бұрын
Wow! Oxalic acid, just like the cleanser in Bar Keepers Friend. It’s the 1 cleanser which can clean all that grimy yuk on the stove & pots & pans, that never seems to come off. ..Next time I’m taking my grimy frying pan out to a tree 🌲 or 🪨. Thanks 🙏🏼 for the Helpful Kitchen Hint.
@russmartin4189
Жыл бұрын
Do lichens kill the trees they grow on, like other fungi? I once read a survival book in which it was said you can eat lichen if you boil it, however there is not much nutrition in it. But, it seems it will keep you alive. I never tested that, and wondered if some could be poisonous like some muchrooms.
@eckligt
3 жыл бұрын
I just found your channel, and like the videos I've seen so far. I really hope your presentation style can attract more young people to take an interest in the sciences. Regarding lichens, I'm curious about the process of petogenesis. Is it fair to say that lichens are ultimately responsible for most of the biomass that exists in the world, or maybe at least on land? Most biology builds its biomass from other living, or recently deceased, things (maybe plants pull most of their biomass from the air in the form of CO2, though), but some at some place in this complex cycle new matter has to enter the cycle, since biomass also exits the cycle, and also since the amount of biomass in an area can increase over millenia. So are lichens the most prominent such entry point?
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you found my channel and are enjoying my videos. Thanks for following along! I would love for more people to see my channel, and especially younger people to realize science can be a lot more fun than it seems. Pedogenesis is far more complicated than just the role of lichens. It varies with environment and with geology and climate, etc. I was just saying that lichens are the most important part of the creation of *primitve* soils - aka the soils that first begin to form once the bedrock is formed in an area. Since not many other plants/organisms can thrive on bare rock, lichens are the tough guys that are able to thrive on these surfaces and do the hard work of creating an environment where other plants and organisms can then make their homes. Soil is definitely much much more than just the lichens, but lichens play a big role in their formation! If you want to learn a tad bit more about soils, i'd suggest taking a look at my video where I paint with soil pigments. In there I do a basic lesson about soils and how they form.
@eckligt
3 жыл бұрын
@@Geobeck Thanks, I went and watched the soil video now. I like how you're also marrying art with science. I'll continue to work my way through your videos.
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
@@eckligt anytime, i'm glad you took a look and enjoyed it! I think one of my main interests in finding fun 'random' ways to connect science/geology with other topics. My next video is going to be another way to do that, involving coffee. Stay tuned! :)
@jan.d.k
3 жыл бұрын
On a hike in Sweden 1986 I picked up some interesting stones which I examined recently. On some of them I found dried Lichens. Are they revivable?
@kyjo72682
3 жыл бұрын
Wow. I had no idea these things were composite organisms, or that one of them were fungi. I always thought lichens were somehow related to moss. :) Also, 8% of all surface? That's crazy.
@Lateralusaint.
3 жыл бұрын
This was way cool. I allways wondered*how was it made and how it works.we call it Lišaj :)
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
Can someone please teach me if the correct way to say it is 'lichen' or 'lichens'? this is how I feel when I try to talk about deer or moose (meese? mooses?)
@ispearedbritney
3 жыл бұрын
You had it right in the video, Beck! It can be 'lichens' when discussing multiple forms or species, but 'lichen' itself isn't really an individual anyway- therefore lichen can be used for both singular or plural. You can't go wrong! ps its definitely 'meeses'
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
@@ispearedbritney yay!! Thanks for clearing that up! I’m glad I got it right :)
@jesses517
3 жыл бұрын
I have taken a liken to geology But I really like the videos thank you
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
i'm glad someone else appreciated the pun hahahah, i'm glad you liked the video, thanks!
@53Troop
3 жыл бұрын
Oh very cool i always thought it was a type of moss and not a fungus. You can see them grow alot on old gowth red oak trees in Rockland County. People say it kills the trees but i doubt that or is it possible?
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
for a while I never even bothered wondering about them until I started looking more at rocks in college for my geology degree and noticed lichens all over them, lol. I don't know much about if they kill trees or not, I guess it depends on the type of lichen/tree/environment (since there are so many possibilities), I didn't come across too much information on that while researching this video
@53Troop
3 жыл бұрын
@@Geobeck Hello 👋. They are exactly like the one on the stick on minute 1:16. From my observations they are very common on rocky ( this is Rockland County NY after all) and very wet, very shady areas. Moss is present usually most of the time on the ground. It attaches mostly to Oaks ( predominantly on red oaks) Ash, and tulip trees. Elevation is around 600 to 800 Feet above sea level. Very hot humid summers and cold windy winters. Not sure on the type of rocks around but they look very oxidized.
@SanjeevKumar-wq9hi
3 жыл бұрын
❤️
@WHOPULLEDMYFINGER
2 жыл бұрын
Reindeer herding/ Laplanders/ lichens
@abdoqaidd7680
3 жыл бұрын
I like u+ur diamonds
@BullProspecting
Жыл бұрын
Me! Lol
@thirstfast1025
3 жыл бұрын
Think of marriage. Is that symbiotic, or parasitic? At first glance, it seems symbiotic. Over time, it can go either way. Ultimately, human pairing benefits the whole system, not just the individuals. Moment to moment, it can seem parasitic, or symbiotic. Ultimately, it's beneficial to the whole system.
@vikasgoswami4268
2 жыл бұрын
You are married and unmarried
@HeartFullOfForest
3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha, love that pun..... I really love these videos so much! I thought that beard lichen was a moss too. We have so much of it here and I want to pick some because it's soooo pretty but it's not allowed :( If they chop down more forest here I'm going to sneak out and get some though.
@Geobeck
3 жыл бұрын
youre so sweet, thank you!! and right? I visited my brother in Oregon a couple years ago and we loved seeing that all over the trees but I always just though it was dried out moss or something. it makes sense that it's not allowed since it's important to some food chains of animals and also soil formation and stuff like I mentioned, but it you get a chance to snag some in the forest as they're clearing it you totally should! you can make a little terrarium with it
@HeartFullOfForest
3 жыл бұрын
@@Geobeck Yeah I know at least its important to the reindeers up north so I suppose its also good for other deer species! I will totally do a terrarium! >:O
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