By Sam Christopher, University of Vermont When I think of my backyard I see chipmunks jumping from chair to chair on my patio. Squirrels attempting to get any amount of food that they can out of the bird feeder. Dark-eyed…
By Annie Barkan, University of Vermont Dumela from Khwai, Botswana! Last week, we arrived at our first field station at Camp Tau. As we begin our fieldwork, we find it important to share a few words about the scope…
by Maegan Aldous, University of Vermont For the past five days, the ten of us students have been living on the campo (farm in Spanish) for our homestays, completely immersed in the gaucho culture and practicing our Spanish. We had a…
by Ella Mighell, University of Vermont Puerto Eden – remote and isolated might be word associations for a traveler who spends half an hour walking the limited boardwalks of Isla Wellington as the ferry unloads barrels of petroleum, rolls of building…
By Ashley Novella, University of Vermont After a two-day ferry ride through a labyrinth of fjords in the south of Chile, we finally set foot onto the soil of a sixty-inhabitant town of Puerto Edén. This vast region is…