May 8, 2019
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Turks & Caicos Islands
Marine Resource Studies
Faculty Post
Be A Climate Pirate
by Franziska Elmer, Ph.D.
If you were part of the biggest event in human history, what role would you play? In the next 12 years we will write history. Each one of us...
May 8, 2019
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May 8, 2019
Final Thoughts from the...
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May 7, 2019
Final Impressions of Australia
Panama
Tropical Island Biodiversity Studies
Student Post
Final Impressions of Panama
by Liz Walker
At the beginning of the spring semester, student Liz Walker shared her first impressions of Panama. Now, after a semester in country, we reconnected with Liz. What did...
May 7, 2019
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May 7, 2019
Final Impressions of Tanzania
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May 7, 2019
The Wangari Maathai Memorial...
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May 7, 2019
Final Impressions of Cambodia
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May 7, 2019
Update from South Caicos
Costa Rica
Sustainable Development Studies
Faculty Post
Sounds from a Cloud Forest
by J. Edgardo Arévalo Hernandez, Ph.D.
Sounds from a Cloud Forest: The Research on Bird Songs and Anthropogenic Interference Protected areas in Costa Rica comprise a variety of tropical habitats and make about one quarter...
May 7, 2019
Beverly Massachusetts
SFS World Headquarters
Staff Post
SFS Receives Cummings Foundation Grant
by Marta Brill, M.A.
The School for Field Studies Awarded $200,000 Beverly nonprofit receives Cummings Foundation grant Katlyn Armstrong, SFS Vice President of New Programs and Strategic Initiatives at SFS, and Marta Brill,...
May 3, 2019
Panama
Tropical Island Biodiversity Studies
Staff Post
Directed Research in Panama
by Jorie Heilman
Directed Research is up and running in Bocas. We have three groups this semester working on very different projects: Professor Carolyn Kovacs' group (Tropical Coastal Ecology) is continuing a project...
April 24, 2019
Costa Rica
Sustainable Development Studies
Staff Post
Crowdfunding for Faculty Research
by Sophia Graybill
SFS' 2019 Faculty Research Crowdfunding campaign is underway! The campaign launched yesterday morning with the goal of raising money for two of our faculty members to purchase new research equipment....
April 24, 2019
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April 24, 2019
Beyond the Classroom
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April 24, 2019
Data Collection Begins
Cambodia
Conservation and Development Studies
Staff Post
Histories of the Bunong Indigenous People
by Arden Simone
This month, SFS students are focused on Directed Research (DR) -- one of my favorite parts of the semester. I enjoy DR because it is applied, experiential, purposeful,...
April 24, 2019
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April 18, 2019
The Switch from Kenya...
Turks & Caicos Islands
Marine Resource Studies
Student Post
It Starts with Us
by Anna Ortega
"Many of you want to be coral scientists, but you might want to reconsider that." Cut to our Marine Ecology professor clicking out of her climate change Powerpoint and onto...
April 18, 2019
Bhutan
Himalayan Environment and Development Studies
Staff Post
Bhutan: A Look Back
by Marta Brill, M.A.
This summer will mark a momentous occasion -- ten years of consecutive programming for The School for Field Studies in the Kingdom of Bhutan. From its inception through the spring...
April 15, 2019
Peru
Amazon Studies
Faculty Post
The Right to Decide
by Lisbet Christoffersen, Ph.D.
The Right to Decide: Culture and Crop Diversity in the Andes In times where food production increasingly concentrates in large corporate monopolies, and the ingredients in our processed meals are...
April 9, 2019
Cambodia
Conservation and Development Studies
Student Post
Cooking Tricks from the Masters (Video and Recipes!)
by Maya Glicksman
Every meal prepared by our beloved staff members Maly and Congkea is cooked with love, laughter, spice, and vegetarian options, of course. We’ve been living at the Center for over...
April 9, 2019
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April 9, 2019
Reptiles in the Spotlight
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April 9, 2019
Bhutan
Himalayan Environment and Development Studies
Student Post
From Silence to Noise
by Vishva Nalamalapu
Our plane shudders to a halt on the runway of Paro Airport. I step out, and I am immediately enveloped by an expansive silence that engulfs the valley and everything...
April 8, 2019
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April 8, 2019
Weaving Tourism and Tradition
Panama
Tropical Island Biodiversity Studies
Student Post
The Human Footprint, and the Soothing Sounds of Nature
by Siobhan Moynihan
There’s a melody to conservation, and I was once told by a professor to listen to the sounds nature made. Whether that be the falling of heavy rain on our...
April 8, 2019
Australia
Rainforest Studies
Student Post
Our Last Hurrah on the Great Barrier Reef
by Emma McGurren
This is the first SFS Australia semester that has included a major reef component. As I explored study abroad programs, SFS Australia stood out to me because it involved ecosystem...
April 8, 2019
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April 8, 2019
Fun in the Field
Kenya
Wildlife and Human Dimensions of Conservation Studies
Faculty Post
Unpacking Human-Wildlife Conflict
by Kendi Borona, Ph.D.
Unpacking Human-Wildlife Conflict in the Amboseli Tsavo Ecosystem, Kenya Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC) is undoubtedly one of the most problematic issues in and around conservation areas in Africa. One of...
April 8, 2019
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April 8, 2019
Diving into Directed Research
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April 8, 2019
Camping in the Serengeti
Bhutan
Himalayan Environment and Development Studies
Faculty Post
The Hidden Himalayas
by Jesse Lewis, M.S.
Camera Traps Reveal the Hidden Himalayas The forests of the Eastern Himalayas are some of the most biodiverse in the world, and are the last stronghold for many threatened wildlife...
April 8, 2019