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
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student life
The Mountains and Vistas Outside of Asheville
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
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
New Places, New Faces
This weekend I moved to Beaufort, home of the Duke Marine Laboratory and its new Orrin Pilkey research laboratory.
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
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