Yikes! It’s been a long time since I’ve posted!
There are posts in the works but this whole adjusting-back-to-normal-school thing is a tougher exercise in time management than I thought! Boy do I wish I were back at camp outside Tarangire right now. I think I’d savor getting dressed in a 104 degree F tent…
BUT I’m [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘environment’
12 March 2009
A Mirror of Nature at the MIA
2 December 2008
Tumefika Juu ya Mlima Kilimanjaro!
Well we made it! Mt. Kilimanjaro (5,985-ish meters), the Roof of Africa, was conquered by myself and three good girlfriends at 6am local time on November 28th, 2008. aka: during Thanksgiving dinner for all those in the United States.
We hiked for a total of 5 days through about 5 different ecological zones, [...]
6 November 2008
yeah i’m back
Yep. sorry I didn’t give a recap on my month-long excursion in that last post. American politics took precedence. I’ve got to say, though, it was really fun to post that from the US Embassy in Tanzania. What a great election story.
I don’t have much time left on my computer in this internet [...]
25 February 2008
wrap-up (I miss Itasca)
I am waaay overdue on this but I thought I’d just wrap the trip up for you:
First things first. Itasca was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Not only did I learn a ton without realizing it (my professor has a way of simply exuding information when you’re in his presence [...]
27 January 2008
catch-up
sorry it’s been so long. this week was crazy – freezing cold temperatures over the weekend and into the beginning of the week; 2 days of intense auguring to get all 19 lakes re-tested after the cold snap (there was about a 5 cm increase in ice thickness during the weekend’s -40 degree Fahrenheit weekend), [...]
17 January 2008
northern lights
a couple of us decided to try to see the northern lights on monday evening. we went out between 12:30 and 1:30 am, but didn’t get much of a show. hopefully they’ll get better as the nights get colder. i got good pictures of the stars, though, and caught some of the [...]
15 January 2008
more pictures
this weekend was crazy. our group worked all weekend to drill holes in 19 different lakes over 3 days. although we got faster by the end, it still took most of the daylight hours each day. we now have a good base of data to start our paper – just in time [...]
9 January 2008
beavers and ice
Yesterday we continued our search for beaver lodges and had quite the exciting day! The 11 of us students split into 4 groups, each covering a square mile of the park. Out of the 11 of us, 6 put a foot or a leg through the ice. One guy went through twice: [...]
7 January 2008
warm winter
today got up to 41 degrees fahrenheit. a great day for being out so here are some photos i got. we just hiked a little way up a ski trail near our house. the lake in the photos is lake itasca.
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