Our World – Underwater Scholarship Society in North America

So Alaska is beautiful.  I got to spend a lot of the weekend outdoors — it was a balmy 45 degrees.  Thanks Ori for taking me cross-country skiing, and thanks Homer Spit for one of my best beach walks ever.
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Hey all!  For anyone following in the Homer Area, please feel free to come to tomorrow’s presentation:
Please Join the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve
for our next
Brown Bag Lunch Seminar
March 18, 2010
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center Auditorium

Conservation Photography

Presenter: Myfanwy Rowlands
2009 Rolex Scholar of the Our World-Underwater Scholarship [...]

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I was lucky enough to spend a couple of days across the bay at the Kasitsna Bay Laboratory (a UAF/NOAA facility) with the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ scientific diving class, led by the venerable Brenda Konar.  The Lab is an ideal research location — I was impressed with what’s being done there, and intrigued by the [...]

Today I got to go up flying with Jose de Creeft, a local pilot who does quite a bit of survey work for the Fish & Wildlife Service as well as the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve.  It was amazing!  We were tracking sea otters using radiotelemetry, which is no easy task, but Jose is just [...]

Hey-o… it’s been blizzarding for the past few days, but today was lovely.  The sun set over a huge cloud bank — I snuck out for a walk to get some pictures of it.  By the time I got back I could not feel my legs.
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I’m staying at the volunteer bunkhouse for the Kachemak Bay [...]

I’m in Homer!  Homer, Alaska, that is.  I’ll be volunteering with these guys for the next few weeks:
Kachemak Bay Research Reserve
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The drawing above was illustrated by Catie Bursch, one of Kachemak Bay Research Reserve’s Marine Educators.  Today Catie and I went on an excursion looking for materials for the new exhibit at the Islands and [...]