The best part of my time at the Nicholas School of the Environment was meeting fellow students. Everyone was passionate about their study areas, plus hiking, birding, herping, and improving the environment. We commiserated over difficulties in field work and statistical analyses, and celebrated awesome results or pioneering research. Since graduating over a year ago,…
Tag: travel
Florida State Parks – Camp Helen
I stood between Camp Helen State Park’s dune lake and the Gulf of Mexico, feeling the current push against my legs. Lake Powell’s bronze-colored water flowed past me, where it mixed with the salt water along the beach. Schools of minnows clung to the edge of the outfall, while larger fish swam in its fast-moving…
Nat Geo – A Rocky Path Toward Maine’s New National Monument
The mighty 75-mile East Branch of the Penobscot River begins as a small stream in north-central Maine. I stood on its bank in late September 2015, closing my eyes against the dust billowing up from the logging road I had used to reach the water. On one side of the road, the stream seemed still,…
E. Zambello Writing and Art 