December 12, 2012 By Scott Hartle (Northland College ’14) What an adventure! Our time here in Patagonia is sadly coming to an end. Many of the students are either heading home tomorrow or are continuing their adventures. I will recount…
Goofing off on top of Wereldsend Mountain By Molly Talbert (Middlebury College ’14) We had only finished our finals the day before, but standing on top of Wereldsend Mountain made all of our academics seem worlds away. At that…
December 7, 2012 By Sam Feigenbaum (Carleton College ’14) Somehow finals have come and gone already! Back in West Winds last Sunday after our abbreviated second round of bird surveys, folks got to work immediately. A busy week loomed: research…
November 26, 2012 By Aileen Lennon (University of Vermont ’13) It has now been two months since we uprooted ourselves from friends, family and first world luxuries, planting our feet in the fresh sand of Namibia. We have fallen into…
November 24, 2012 By Heidi Anderson (Macalester College ’14) Despite a gloomy forecast, we woke up to sunshine Tuesday morning, and prepared for a day of November bird surveys. We crawled groggily out of our tents at 5:30am and had…