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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">If any of you are planning to
be in town on the 16th for the NAAPC meetings and are interested in seeing
our lab, talking about specimen processing, work flow, and databasing our
lab will be open all day. We will be glad to show people any of our
operations, get your hands dirty washing and pinning bees, and answer your
questions about bee monitoring or picture taking.</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Directions to the lab are below.</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">sam</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="Tahoma">Directions to the USGS Native Bee Inventory
and Monitoring Lab<br>
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GPS Points – Warning Do Not use our mailing address as it only goes to
the mail distribution center about 3 miles away from the lab. If
you want to navigate to Building 308 use:<br>
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Latitude: 39.0349°<br>
Longitude: -76.8735°<br>
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Sam Droege's Work Number: 301 497 5840<br>
Home Number: 301 390 7759<br>
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Directions from the intersection of the Washington Beltway (495) and the
Baltimore Washington Parkway (295).<br>
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Travel NORTH outside of the Beltway towards Baltimore on 295.<br>
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In approximately 5 miles and about 3 exits you will come to an exit for
Powdermill Road<br>
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Take the single exit ramp to Powdermill Road and turn LEFT<br>
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(NOTE: The main campus and the visitor's center for Patuxent
Wildlife Research Center is to the Right, but our lab is located on Beltsville
Agriculture Research Center property and therefore you must turn LEFT towards
Beltsville)<br>
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Travel about 1.5 miles.<br>
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On your right you will see Entomology Road, this is a marker that your
turn is coming soon.<br>
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Take the next right onto Center Road (note Center Road is not in most GPS
mapping systems)<br>
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Travel to the last lab building on the left (there are no lab buildings
on the right).<br>
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This will be building 308 which is very clearly marked.<br>
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Park in the parking lot out front.<br>
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At the door hit the button on the black box, wait for a reply, and then
tell them you are here to visit me and they will let you in.<br>
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Alternatively, if someone is going in or out of the door you can follow
them directly in.<br>
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I am in room 124.<br>
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Doors usually open.<br>
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<br><font size=1 face="Tahoma">The Inward Morning<br>
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Packed in my mind lie all the clothes <br>
Which outward nature wears, <br>
And in its fasion's hourly change <br>
It all things else repairs <br>
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-Henry David Thoreau </font>