One of the biggest questions I had entering grad school – and it’s a question that I think anyone who’s ever dedicated a bit of time or energy to environmental issues wonders about – wasContinue reading
Category: conservation
conservation, environmental policy, internships, students, Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva, Switzerland, travel
Crazy, Candid, Calculated Course Week
Last week the Duke Program on Global Policy and Governance hosted its sixteenth annual course week in Geneva to complement our summer internships. This year there were four tracks: Humanitarian action; global health; environment, energy,Continue reading
Adventures On and Assessments of Rivers in the American West, conservation, internships, students, travel, water
Packed and Ready for the Field!
Training is officially over and I will finally be leaving on my first hitch for the summer tomorrow! It’s hard to believe that its only been three weeks since I arrived in Utah. I feelContinue reading
Adventures On and Assessments of Rivers in the American West, conservation, internships, students, water
Training in Northern Utah
Bank angle, embeddedness, bankfull height, canopy cover… These are just a few of the parameters that I will be measuring this summer as part of the Western Rivers and Streams Assessment (WRSA). Training is inContinue reading
Elwha River: Restoration and Recreation
This past weekend I had the opportunity to raft the Elwha River. The Elwha may be familiar to even those that have never spent time on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. It is theContinue reading
conservation, internships, Of Mice and Men in Gabon: Exploring how Hunting and Logging Affect Mammal Communities and Forest Regeneration, students, travel
In the Footsteps of Giants
“The laid made plans of mice and men often go astray” -John Steinbeck You would think given the title of the blog, or any other fieldwork I’ve done over the past ten years or so,Continue reading
conservation, internships, Mapping Habitat for the San Martin Titi Monkey in Peru, students, travel
Finally, tocónes!
The motor taxi vibrated violently beneath the road, the constant shaking the only thing keeping me awake this morning at 5:30am. But, through the dimly breaking dawn I could still see it in the distance,Continue reading
conservation, internships, Mapping Habitat for the San Martin Titi Monkey in Peru, students, sustainability, travel
Lions and tigers and bears (and monkeys)! Oh my!
As I’ve traveled the world, one thing has been glaringly obvious to me: deforestation is threatening our biodiversity. In the US, we are so used to seeing parking lots rather than forest; we no longerContinue reading
conservation, forests, internships, Mapping Habitat for the San Martin Titi Monkey in Peru, students
For me, it’s the tropics
It was edging near 2pm and the sun was bright and strong overhead. We were all tired and hungry from not having had lunch yet. Because our original plans were destroyed by an impassable road,Continue reading
conservation, internships, Of Mice and Men in Gabon: Exploring how Hunting and Logging Affect Mammal Communities and Forest Regeneration, students
Child’s Play
So the question of the hour: How’s the rodent trapping? The honest answer: Child’s Play. Now on my honor that’s the truth. But given that each day I collapse at the end in a sweatyContinue reading