So… I work in a cubicle.  In an office.  And there just aren’t a whole lot of unique photo opportunities in a cubicle.  So this might be my only actual picture from my office, and it’s not actually from my office, it’s from a summit that my office, International Affairs, hosted.  I am learning a […]

I made it to D.C.!  I started an internship at NOAA’s Office of International Affairs, under the direction of Rebecca Lent and Christopher Rogers.  This is the train stop I get off on at Silver Springs, MD.  I’ll be here for three weeks!

I’m on my way to Washington, D.C., and I stayed overnight in New Jersey with my friend Chelsea Kahn, at Rutgers University.  I met Chelsea earlier this year in Little Cayman when I stayed with the Little Cayman Research Institute (archived blogs here).  Chelsea and I visited Carrie Manfrino, the director of the Central Caribbean […]

Today was my last day at the boatyard.  I watched as Martin Niemiec launched a boat, I helped Tony the mechanic take a cracked radiator out of a forklift, and watched Dave the shaper finish fiberglassing a sailboat he’s been working on.  I didn’t get nearly my fill of boat maintenance, and I’m really hoping […]

The guys had an engine come in that was overheating.  Chris, a mechanic, fixed what he thought was the problem and we went for a test drive.  The engine was still overheating over a certain RPM (too low an RPM be overheating at), and so we took the boat back so that Chris could pull […]