October 23, 2015 When I was a kid, my dad and I used to drive along country roads, scanning fields for milkweed. If we spied anything we would quickly pull over, hopping out of the car and searching the leaves for black, yellow, and white caterpillars. Scooping them gently into a mesh case labeled “Erika’s…
Author: Erika Zambello
Erika Zambello is a writer, birder, and photographer living and working along the Emerald Coast of Florida. She has a master’s degree in environmental management, where she specialized in ecosystem science and conservation. Her love of the outdoors was inspired by a childhood in Maine, where she returned for her National Geographic Young Explorer grant. In addition to Maine, she has lived in New York, France, Washington, DC, and North Carolina. Erika believes in the power of communicating conservation and exploration, which was the inspiration for One World, Two Feet.
When exploring, I tend to be a very active outdoorswomen. Time outside is an important part of my regular exercise, and on trips I try to rack up the miles. Most of the time, my constant movement works well. I’m usually searching for birds, and the farther I go, the more I see! But not…
September 20, 2015 Before moving to Florida, I had little experience with its unique freshwater springs. Like many, my mental images of Florida were primarily of beaches, warm ocean waters, and manatees, and I had never even heard about the springs until my husband took me to one near his hometown for the first time….
E. Zambello Writing and Art 