by Olivia Sena, of University of Vermont ‘22 Sky Island Borderlands Program Spring ‘21 More than a month following my crazy, incredible experience in the Sky Island Borderlands of SW Arizona with Round River, I can confidently say it was…
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by Olivia Sena, of University of Vermont ‘22 Sky Island Borderlands Program Spring ‘21 More than a month following my crazy, incredible experience in the Sky Island Borderlands of SW Arizona with Round River, I can confidently say it was…
by Joscie Norris, of University of Vermont In a last minute decision in 2018, I realized I was going to leave the continent for the first time and study in Mongolia. A place so distant and off of my radar…
by Henry Dodge, Colby College Hello Round River community! My name is Hank Dodge and I’ve had the privilege of being an intern for the Round River Botswana program throughout the month of January 2018. As a student at…
Singer-songwriter Mark Erelli performed his beautiful song “By Degrees” with Rosanne Cash during the Brady Campaign’s 2016 Bear Awards in New York City. He shared this video on October 2 following the tragic events in Las Vegas, and this message:…
VETERINARIAN REMODELS, REOPENS BIG SKY’S ONLY CLINIC By Jessianne Wright, Explore Big Sky, September 3, 2017 BIG SKY – Dr. Sydney Desmarais wasn’t sure if she really wanted to be a veterinarian when she signed up with Round River Conservation…
Sylvia Kinosian University of Vermont ’15 Round River Taku 2014 This past September, almost exactly two years after I packed my bags for a semester in Patagonia, I started a PhD program at Utah State University. I hadn’t been sure…
Alumni Update: Jenny Helm Colby College ’11 Round River Namibia 2010 I feel incredibly lucky to be pursuing my passion for wildlife biology as a second-year Masters student in the Wildlife Biology Program at the University of Montana. I’m especially…
By Moriah Hounsell (University of Vermont; Namibia 2010) I sometimes feel like an odd duck when I see Round River content show up on my Facebook feed, especially when things like job postings come up. Would I like to…
Drew Higgins is a student at Carleton College (class of 2016). She was on the Round River Taku Watershed Conservation Program in summer 2014. I never thought I would return to Atlin after my Round River experience there in…
Namibia (CCF) ’02, Ecuador ’03, Taku ’03, TA Namibia (SRT) ’05 It’s been an interesting 12+ years since my first semester abroad in Namibia. While I learned that field biology wasn’t my calling during my time with Round River…
By Ben Daggett (University of Vermont ’15) “…and then I studied abroad in Botswana with Round River Conservation Studies during my junior year.” Soon after my statement, I watched both of my interviewer’s pencils start flying across their papers…
Thanks to everyone who submitted photos for our first Alumni Photo Contest! We received over 200 of photographs from Namibia, Botswana, Patagonia, British Columbia, and Wyoming – all taken by alumni of our student programs. Winners for each category are posted below….
By Josh Appelbaum (University of Vermont ‘09, Round River Namibia 2008) Josh graduated from the University of Vermont in 2009 with a BA in English. He now lives on the North Shore of Boston where he works for a sports…
Pre-veterinary students may be interested in this article from a recent Botswana alum, Ben Daggett (a pre-vet student at University of Vermont). While Round River’s research does not include handling animals, daily wildlife observations as well as the opportunities to meet researchers…