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
Category: travel
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
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
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
Spring Break Road Trip: San Felasco Hammock State Preserve and the Everglades
Spring breaks are for road trips (with plenty of carpooling and as much energy efficiency as possible of course), and so on a Friday afternoon I threw my bags in the back of a carContinue reading
A Return to my Favorite Virginia Beach Marshes
I honed my birding skills over the summer by taking daily walks in the Pleasure House Point marshes of Virginia Beach, Virginia. Starting in May I must have walked the mile down and mile backContinue reading