A couple years ago, shortly after graduating I moved to Malawi, Africa to work for a small-scale monitoring program, looking at fish diversity and fisheries in a community on the coast of Lake Malawi. This was an extremely eye-opening moment in my life. I saw so many things I had been taught were unsustainable, yet […]

I descended onto a slope of endless dark brown sand with seemingly nothing to break the monotony. Then I looked just a little bit closer, and with a sigh of relief and an inner scream of excitement I sunk down to the sand for the first muck dive of my life. To the uninitiated, muck […]

Hello from South Florida! I am here in the Florida Keys diving with one of the pioneers of Underwater archaeology, Charlie Beeker, and a group of his students training with the Underwater Science program at Indiana University.  Charlie founded the program in 1992, and has been training students, and working on the preservation of subtidal […]

Immediately following the Inaugural weekend in the big Apple, Kim- The 2019 European Scholar, and I flew to Durham, North Carolina where we were received by the incredible Patty Seery, Director of Training at Divers Alert Network (DAN). DAN is a vital organization, providing safety infrastructure to divers globally, as well as carrying out research […]

Back in 2015, I was spending my summer studying at the amazing Bamfield Marine Sciences Center on the west coast of Vancouver Island. I was a freshly certified Scientific Diver, still wet behind the ears (salt water obviously), and was eager to use my skills. I reached out to their DSO, and somehow convinced them […]