I am officially jealous of my fellow MEM’s who are working in Asheville. Not only do they have cool internships, but I stopped by their awesome new pad and neighborhood over the weekend and wasContinue reading
Author: Erika Zambello
Erika is a 2015 MEM graduate with a concentration in Ecosystem Science and Conservation. She grew up in southern Maine surrounded by a beautiful environment, inspiring her to pursue conservation in her graduate work. Studying Government and Anthropology as an undergraduate at Cornell and working in the development department of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace between her undergrad and graduate studies has prompted her to bring multiple disciplines to her study of the natural world. She is a National Geographic Young Explorer, and currently works as a Marine Economic and Tourist Development Resource Coordinator, using ecotourism to strengthen conservation and restoration along the coast of Florida.
A Foggy Morning in the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine
My sister graduated from college last weekend, and while I’m more proud of her than I can say, it did require an eight hour drive from my parents’ house in Maine all the way toContinue reading
Blue Mountains at Waterrock Knob
I have fallen in love again. Not with a smile, a handshake, or even a person, but a stretch of mountains, layered in greens and blues as far as the eye can see. Finally, afterContinue reading
Pumping Up My Photography
Kneeling on a dirt path in Duke Gardens, I leaned close to the yellow flower. In one arm I held my camera, in the other a reflector I had borrowed from the photography instructor. IfContinue reading
A Few Feathery Reasons to Bird the Outer Banks: My Cuckoo Morning
It was my first ever professional conference. As a Stanback Intern at The Conservation Fund, I was attending the North Carolina Land Trust Assembly spring meeting, held in Salter Path of the Outer Banks. InContinue reading
The Herps of Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve
What do you get when you combine a friend’s visit, the last weekend before the end of classes, and a beautiful Saturday afternoon? For me, it all added up to a trip to a natureContinue reading
Erika Zambello
climate, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, ESC, students, travel
climate, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, ESC, students, travel
Offsetting My Own Carbon Emissions: What’s the Deal with Individual Carbon Credits?
I talk about climate change a lot. I’m not alone, most of my fellow Nicholas School graduate students and I spend a great deal of our time studying and discussing the causes and ramifications ofContinue reading
Meeting a Birding Hero: My Hour with David Sibley
It’s rare that you can meet someone in person who has made such an impact on your life from afar. Picture Christmas, 2012; wrapping paper is on the floor (we recycled it I swear), theContinue reading
Charleston: A Southern City
One of the best parts about living in Durham is that I can use it as a home base to explore so many places I’ve never been before. One of those places was the oldestContinue reading
The Impact of Ice Storms
Being a New Englander, I have a lot of experience with ice and snow. Still, despite my years in the chilly north the ice storms that seem to rain down on us here in NorthContinue reading