Where in the world is Midway? The Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (MANWR) and Battle of Midway National Memorial are located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, one…

I got lucky, if you can really call anyone lucky in the midst of a global pandemic. Unlike some others in my cohort, my assigned project for the Directorate Fellows Program was both close to…

  I am now embarking on week eight of my eleven-week fellowship. My supervisor warned me in the beginning that the time would cruise by and that I need to anchor myself in the goals and objectives outlined for this position.…

Imagine the feeling of being present in a particular scene when reading a good book—the experience of sinking into the world that is being described in the book without actually being there yourself. You can…

During my undergraduate career, I spent three weeks in Mo’orea, a small French Polynesian island. I was joined by 14 other students for a field quarter where we each conducted an ecological study.

The land that we know today as Point Reyes got its name from Spanish explorer and soldier Sebastián Vizcaíno, a man who gave many of the geographical features of coastal California their modern names.