I think it’s official, I am addicted to National Wildlife Refuges. In a span of two weeks in June I visited three separate refuges: Back Bay Wildlife Refuge, Egmont Key Wildlife Refuge, and last butContinue reading
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coasts
Shannon Switzer
CEM, climate, coasts, Duke Marine Lab, environmental health, environmental policy, oceans, students, travel
CEM, climate, coasts, Duke Marine Lab, environmental health, environmental policy, oceans, students, travel
The Lighthouse Ponies
“Misty of Chincoteague?” I squealed. “No, that’s Virginia, this is North Carolina,” my classmate responded. “Yeah, but the ponies!” I insisted. We hadn’t come out on this boat to see the ponies per se (andContinue reading
Fort De Soto Park and Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge
We arrived at Fort De Soto Park’s campground just before sundown, as an evening thunderstorm prepared to pass over us. The campsite that we shared with my fiance Brian’s family looked out onto shallow grass flats,Continue reading
Ocean Sampling Day
The Duke Marine Lab participated in Ocean Sampling Day on the 2014 summer solstice by sampling coastal waters from Pivers Island in Beaufort, NC.
Night Wading in the Florida Grass Flats
I didn’t expect to push my comfort zone at 10 p.m. at night, but that’s just what happened last weekend. We were camping in Fort De Soto Park on the Gulf coast of Florida, thirtyContinue reading
Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge and False Cape State Park: A 7 Mile Flip Flop Excursion
It’s true that one can learn something new every day. While that is definitely the case for me in my environmental studies and summer internship, it is also true for good ol’ common sense. MyContinue reading
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
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
New Places, New Faces
This weekend I moved to Beaufort, home of the Duke Marine Laboratory and its new Orrin Pilkey research laboratory.
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