Connecting with Bhutan
Name: Sarah Myers SFS Program: Bhutan Summer ’11 School: Cornell University We had been collecting data for two days now, and were nearing the end of our third day in the Ura Valley. Our third community forest, Shingnyer, was beautiful. The trees were tall and wide, the canopy dozens of feet above the ground. The [...]
The Artist’s Role in Shaping Environmental Attitudes
How do you think that the artist and the scientist can, should, or must work together to change our behaviors and attitudes about the environment? By Alyssa Irizarry, SFS Alumna & SFS Staff Member Consider this: How do the artist and the scientist come together to shape individuals’ environmental attitudes and behaviors? I used this [...]
Who Knows What to Expect in the Wet Tropics?
Name: Dr. Justus Kithiia Position: Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Socio-Economic Values Program: Tropical Rainforest Studies, Australia The last few weeks have been very busy for both staff and students at The SFS Centre for Rainforest Studies. We recently visited Chillagoe, a town in Far North Queensland that experienced its days of glory during the mining boom, but [...]
Center Citrus Trees Yield Educational Resources
Name: Dr. Achim Häger Position: Lecturer in Natural Resource Management Program: Sustainable Development Studies, Costa Rica Today, I organized a field experiment with the objective to set up a monitoring protocol for the condition of our fruit trees together with our students. Unsurprisingly, insect damage and fungal diseases have been increasing since we banned pesticides. [...]
Keeping Busy in Costa Rica
Name: Michael Braus School: University of Wisconsin/Madison Major: Animal Science/Zoology Program: Sustainable Development Studies, Costa Rica Half way through October and it is difficult to believe we are half way through our classes and almost ready for Directed Research. We have already covered topics ranging from global climate change to genetically modified crops to socioeconomic [...]
A Return to Lush Lake Nakuru
Name: Dr. John Warui Kiringe Position: Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology Program: Wildlife Management Studies, Kenya Students, faculty, and staff returned from their 6-day expedition to Lake Nakuru National Park. This was our first expedition to Lake Nakuru in several years, but we were excited to return to the abundant biodiversity that Lake Nakuru has [...]
Stepping Barefoot on the Grass on Expedition
Name: Jenny McCarty School: University of Denver Major: Biology Program: Wildlife Management Studies, Kenya Kilimanjaro Bush Camp is being taken over by baboons! Large, crazy, smart baboons. But these baboons are like three year olds throwing temper tantrums compared to the colossal, fearless, and overwhelming in number baboons of Lake Nakuru. Unless you have a [...]
Telling Time in Swahili
Name: Veronica Crosier School: Mount Holyoke College Major: Geography Program: Wildlife Management Studies, Tanzania We’ve been in Tanzania for a month now and time is slipping past faster than the cheetah we saw in the Ngorongoro crater a few weeks ago. In that time, we’ve visited an orphanage, read at the primary school, studied in [...]
Hands-on Academics in Tanzania
Name: John Mwamhanga Position: Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Socioeconomics Program: Wildlife Management Studies, Tanzania In this period, apart from attending class lectures as usual, students were involved in traveling lectures whereby they visited several areas within the Tarangire-Manyara ecosystem. They were exposed to land-use changes and human activities in the lake Manyara catchment and [...]
Getting to Know Moods on South Caicos
Name: Alana Bandos School: University of Wisconsin/Madison Major: Animal Science/Zoology Program: Marine Resource Management Studies, Turks and Caicos It’s hard to believe our trip is almost halfway over. The realization that we have less than two months on South Caicos hit me hard. It feels like just yesterday we landed in paradise; marveling at the sunset [...]
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