As of the writing of this post, I am a 2nd year PhD student (hopefully soon-to-be-candidate) of Geography and Environment in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University.
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| near my research site outside Mbale, Uganda |
I am also a child of New England (which really is fairly culturally English, a realization I have while reading Watching the English, by Kate Fox-- wild!). Having been raised in the suburban forestlands of central Connecticut, I grew up with an affinity for woods and creatures of the woods, which led to my majoring in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, where I focused on ornithology (which is really for the birds.... hyuck hyuck).
There, I realized that my beloved world is, in fact, strongly influenced by my fellow man and the lives we all lead, so I headed to the Big Apple (after a brief stint at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, which is brilliant, if you've never been) to learn about how people interact with the environment! I did this at Columbia University in their Climate & Society Program. It was fantastic, I learned heaps of great stuff, was introduced to the idea of sustainable development (included some field work in the DR) as well as the useful tools of economic and anthropological models of human behavior and decision-making. My time in the program combined with my innate love of travel and nature to guide me to pursue my current (and final?!) degree at Boston University.
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| one of my field sites near Miches, Dominican Republic |
A few aspects of my life will be reflected in this blog, including but by no means limited to:
. just-for-fun travel
. research-related travel
. research non-travel
. all the other stuff i enjoy (nature, cooking, cycling, books, international development/economy)
. just-for-fun travel
. research-related travel
. research non-travel
. all the other stuff i enjoy (nature, cooking, cycling, books, international development/economy)
