a wilderness journal

Earlier on this blog I wrote about a remarkable field biology course I took as an undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz where we spent ...

Pigeon Point in San Mateo County, CA is one of my favorite tidepooling locations and I have visited this area for many years. In late M...

Portrait of Alexander Humboldt by Mathew Brady. Image source . Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most pioneering naturalists to hav...

One of the educational highlights of my life occurred during my senior year (late 1998) as an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz. I enrolled in ...