Earth Day on South Caicos
Name: Chrissy Lamendola Position: Waterfront Intern Program: Marine Resource Studies, Turks & Caicos Islands SFS Alum: TCI Spring 2010 South Caicos may have never before seen an Earth Day celebration quite like the one we pulled off this past Saturday. The event was the accumulation of three weeks of hard work and planning by Kimbrough, [...]
Our Diversified Farm
A Vital Part of the SFS Costa Rica Learning Experience and Sustainable Agricultural System Name: Rosy Cohane-Mann Position: Program Intern Program: Sustainable Development Studies, Costa Rica The two pigs run up to greet us as I walk down to the lower farm at the SFS Center For Sustainable Development Studies in Atenas, Costa Rica with [...]
Diversity of Rainforest Research
Name: Dan Rabinowicz Position: Program Intern Program: Tropical Rainforest Studies, Australia SFS Alum: Tanzania Summer II 2011 These past few weeks here at the Centre for Rainforest Studies have been busy, busy, and busy. Directed Research projects (DRs) are coming to an end while students have been fully integrated into the final analyses of their [...]
‘Roos, Research, and Rare (trees)
Name: Ciara Legato Position: Student Affairs Manager (SAM) Program: Tropical Rainforest Studies, Australia Directed Research (DR) data collection time is coming to an end. The time for students to fully delve into analyzing and writing up findings is about to begin. This semester, I had the opportunity of assisting in data collection with two of [...]
Spring Break… or is it Fall Break?
Name: Michael Montenero Position: Program Intern Program: Tropical Rainforest Studies, Australia SFS Alum: Turks & Caicos Summer ’11 All of us here at the Center for Rainforest Studies are fresh back from mid-semester break (I know it’s a mouthful, but it does clear up the confusion surrounding seasons in the southern hemisphere) and coming back [...]
Learning the SFS Hussle
Name: Sarah Clarren Position: Program Intern Program: Tropical Rainforest Studies, Australia Being relatively new to the SFS Centre for Rainforest Studies (I arrived a mere three days prior to the students), it has taken me a bit of time to settle in. I’ve spent the last couple of months learning how to navigate large vehicles [...]
The Center for Sustainable Development Studies Extends Research Partnership
Name: Gerardo Avalos, Ph.D. Position: Center Director Program: Sustainable Development Studies, Costa Rica The SFS Center for Sustainable Development Studies in Costa Rica has maintained a collaboration agreement with the National System of Protected Areas (SINAC) since 2005. This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is extended every few years, and in March 2013, it was extended [...]
Never a Dull Moment at The Center for Marine Resource Studies
Name: Kimbrough Mauney, M.Ed. Position: Student Affairs Manager Program: Marine Resource Studies, Turks & Caicos SFS Alum: TCI Summer ’00 What do you get when you cross a highly-functioning and willing staff of 14 with 36 gung-ho, motivated students? You get lots of good work done. In the few weeks that our students have been [...]
Book Review: “Visit Sunny Chernobyl”
There is a wooded path near my home that, until recently, welcomed runners, bikers, and dog walkers with this cautionary sign: Passing the sign on my evening runs was disheartening, but it was also intriguing. How did my quaint seaside neighborhood get so polluted anyway? I did a little research. It turns out that from [...]
“Hands for the Sea”
Name: Karlyn Langjahr Position: Student Affairs Manager (SAM) Program: Tropical Island Biodiversity & Conservation Studies, Panama Nearly 12 years ago I first came to Bocas del Toro in my last year of university to take a course in tropical rain forest ecology with the Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation. Little did I realize how [...]
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