Geography’s root words are “geo-” and “-graphy,” and in an academic and workplace environment that can intimidate me at times, knowing that I’m here “writing the Earth” is something that reminds me that I do…

Sitting in my mundane home office (really a desk in my bedroom), it feels like the days are longer and the weeks are shorter. With only four weeks left of my fellowship, I am beginning…

Growing up on a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, I’ve been surrounded by people who constantly say “When I get older I’m getting off this rock.” I guess that’s understandable considering for a lot…

It’s hard to believe we’re already beyond the halfway point of the fellowship. It felt slow-going at first, with getting situated and trained, all the planning and background work; but now it’s a lot of…

So I am at the halfway point of my fellowship and I am definitely feeling the pressure. It may suck a bit to feel this way, but I enjoy telling myself, “embrace the suck!”, because…

I mentioned in my previous blog about the impacts non-native house mice have on the breeding albatross population on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (MANWR).