Delaware Sea Grant College Program
Newark, DE 19716 USA
Phone: 302-831-8083
E-mail: marinecom@udel.edu
Desktop Calendar Wallpapers - October 2010
With the 2010 Delaware Sea Grant and College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment online calendar, you can bring the beauty of Delaware’s coastal resources to your computer screen. In addition to scenic wallpaper for each month, check out the list of notable dates as well as environmental facts, tips, and web links.
Silent Invasion
The setting sun silhouettes a Delaware marsh. The tall plants are common reed (Phragmites australis), a perennial grass that is native to the United States and grown on every continent except Antarctica. In documenting the flora of the New World, early European naturalists described Phragmites as a minor wetland plant, usually confined to the upper elevations of wetlands and along the edges of ditches and ponds. Over the past half-century, however, there has been a rapid and widespread expansion of Phragmites into wetlands once dominated by other plants. This invasion disrupts the natural distribution and movement of plants and water in the wetland, which also can affect the ways that fish, birds, and other animals use the marsh.
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment and Delaware Sea Grant are conducting research and outreach about this marsh invader in efforts to control its spread and restore affected areas.
Photo by Matthew Amey
3 – Coast Day
The UD College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment and Delaware Sea Grant host this annual celebration of the sea, which includes marine critter touch tanks, scientific lectures, seafood cook-offs, and much more. Check out www.decoastday.org to learn more.
10 – Earth Science Week begins
This event engages students in earth sciences and encourages stewardship through understanding.
31– Halloween
Named for their eerie ability to appear and quickly appear and disappear, ghost crabs have coloring that matches the sand and speedy legs that can carry them as fast as 10 miles an hour!
Choose a width:
Miss a month? Go to our 2010 wallpaper download archive.
Download Instructions
Note: Once you have downloaded your wallpaper, you can fine-tune its appearance using your computer's desktop preferences menu (i.e. whether the image is centered, tiled, stretched to fit the screen, etc.).
Step 1.
Click on the link below the image of the month representing the size that you are interested in. This will open the image in its own window.
Step 2 For PC users:
1. Position your cursor over the image.
2. Click the right mouse button.
3. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer (v. 6.0 or higher), select "Set as Background" from the popup menu.
Step 2 For Mac users:
OSX: Drag the image onto your desktop.
Go to System Preferences and open the "Desktop & Screen Saver" icon.
Under the "Desktop" heading, use the file navigator to add the image to the library.
OS9: Drag the image onto your desktop.
Go to your Control Panel and select "Appearance."
Click "Set desktop" and choose your new image.
