Overseas program(s):
Australia Spring 2015
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Rediscovering Science - As dusk fell in the rainforest and the sun burned a dying orange band across the eucaplypts, our field biology instructor told us his worst nightmare: letting a baited mammal trap go unrecovered through the night, with a furry bush rat or antichinus starving inside. For the next two hours, our group of seven students […]
Australia’s natural and unnatural world - At the top of a mile-long staircase I stood at Evans lookout in the Blue Mountains and stared at the edge of the world. Beyond a few eucalyptus trees I saw nothing but mist. We are at the edge of the world in a quite literal sense. To get here we time-traveled over Friday, January […]