A tropical ecologist reporting from the field. Musings on life and art, botfly extractions, tropical plant identification, beer, parrots, machetes. Etc.
Just a quick note for my readers (all 3 of you), to let you know I arrived in Costa Rica yesterday evening after 38 hours of travel. My luggage, unfortunately, did not. I am jet-lagged as all hell and completely out of clean underwear. The mission for today: do laundry and stay awake. My trip to China was phenomenal and overwhelming, and I will post more about it when I get a chance. Hasta luego...
posted by Susan @ 3:43 PM
I grew up on an island off the coast of Maine, in a house with wood heat and cold running water. After high school I took some time off to work and travel, culminating in a three-week trip to Peru where I discovered my fascination with the rain forest and my passion for conservation. I got my B.A. from Carleton College in Minnesota, with a double major in music and biology. Afterwards, my older sister and I hiked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia and back again. I finished my doctorate at the University of Connecticut in 2008, studying tropical ecology. From January 2009 to June 2011 I taught undergraduate study abroad courses in biology and conservation in Costa Rica. From 2011 to the spring of 2017, I was a professor of Environmental Studies at Purchase College (SUNY), and now I have fulfilled the dream of returning to the island where I grew up. I teach Plant Biology at College of the Atlantic. Life is good.
1 Comments:
y'know, I hate to burst your bubble, Susan, but I rather suspect that more than 3 people read your blog.
jus' sayin'
(p.s. I've had to drive down to my company's main office (down in Wethersfield, CT) a couple times in the last two months...& every time I drive by Storrs I kick myself for not coming to play sonatas with you in the winter...yes, I suck...)
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