Centers Where
the Field Begins

Rainforest on every side, the Great Barrier Reef a day trip away. Students spotlight striped possums after dark on a 153-acre campus in the Wet Tropics and help stitch fragmented rainforest back together.

The world's only carbon-negative country, where 60% forest cover is mandated by the constitution. Fieldwork climbs from subtropical valleys to alpine wetlands at 14,000 feet, counting endangered black-necked cranes as winter settles.

Fieldwork on the Tonle Sap, one of the most productive inland fisheries on Earth. Each monsoon the lake reverses flow and swells to five times its size, and students overnight in floating villages that rise and fall with the water.

Glaciers, penguin colonies, and post-fire forests in one of Earth's fastest-warming regions. Students camp in Torres del Paine on multi-day expeditions, trekking to Grey Glacier to document its retreat.

A working farm campus in the highlands of Atenas, in a country that holds five percent of the world's species. Students climb into tree canopies to set camera traps and catch bats after dark in the forest patches between farms.

Boat-based study of resident bottlenose dolphins and loggerhead sea turtles in the Adriatic. Students work alongside the Blue World Institute, whose photo-ID dataset has tracked individual dolphins for over twenty years.

Where 800 years of farming heritage meets the return of wolves to the Tuscan hills. Students count pollinators in vineyards and dig for earthworms in olive groves, testing whether organic conversion is changing anything.

Elephants, lions, and coexistence research in the Amboseli-Kilimanjaro wildlife corridor. Students age and sex elephants from open-roofed vehicles, matching tusk curves and ear notches to a photo catalog that grows with every cohort.

An archipelago where rainforest meets reef across the islands of Bocas del Toro. Students track poison-dart frogs that wear a different color on every island, and snorkel nurseries where fragmented corals are being regrown.

One of the most biodiverse places on Earth, deep in the Upper Amazon basin. Where the Andes fold into the Amazon, students map hummingbird pollination networks in cloud forest and study Andean bear habitat.

Lions, zebra, and large-carnivore research across the Ngorongoro ecosystem and Rift Valley. Students build lion home ranges from years of Tarangire Lion Project records, then visit pastoralist households where those ranges overlap with cattle.

SCUBA-based reef research on one of the Western Hemisphere's longest barrier reef systems. Students survey coral and fish biodiversity and run queen conch assessments the Turks and Caicos government uses to set harvest policy.