Former Scholar, OWUSS Board Member and photographer-extraordinaire Sara Shoemaker Lind invited me to San Francisco to kick off the year getting to know my camera system. Photography has interested me for years, but my greatest shots have been more chance than calculation. With an opportunity like this one to see so many amazing parts of […]

When watching underwater films it’s easy to be swept up into the amazing beauty of the images on the screen. I am not sure I ever fully appreciated the expertise of the world’s best professionals whose craft and skill bring us these images. Truth is, every bit of it is way harder than it looks! […]

If you have been following this blog through my year-long journey then you have probably seen a pattern emerging– cave diving!  I fell in love with cave diving on my very first dive with Jill Heinerth in Ginnie Springs and have since made it a point to visit Jill in North Florida as often as […]

While I was able to get out in the field a fair amount during my time in Brazil, I also spent a lot of time in the lab learning about molecular and genetic techniques that are hugely important in research (an area that I was lacking).  Most days were spent learning from all of the […]

I thought I knew a little bit about fishing…until I went out in the Amazon!  The Amazon is full of fish and it turns out it isn’t that hard to catch them, as long as you aren’t targeting a specific species…that’s a little bit tougher. During my stay in Brazil I had the opportunity to […]