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Aug 23, 20241 min read
Rubber boots
I will say goodbye to my rubber boots, Bought for $30 from Canadian Tire in 2022 Now spattered with specks of red, blue, yellow, green...


Aug 13, 20244 min read
Saltfish and ackee
In the last five days of field work, we hit numerous firsts. Up on the north coast, near Annotto Bay if you’re following along, we were...

Aug 9, 20241 min read
Fireflies
Dusk falls Light dims Hazy purple glow behind the trees. Â First a squint as the shadows lengthen, Inky wells of blackness pooling and...


Aug 6, 20242 min read
No plots at 800m
From the dry forests outside of Kingston, we wound our way up into the Blue Mountains, famous for its coffee and steep sided hills. We...

Jul 23, 20243 min read
The soundscapes of field work
For the past two years in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the language and rhythms of the music we heard have been Spanish...


Jul 17, 20243 min read
Marshall's Pen
In the week that followed Hurricane Beryl, we had been intending on camping in some high elevation forests neat St. Catherines Peak....


Jul 3, 20243 min read
There be giants
Oh field work, how you delight me and try my patience. Our first week in Jamaica can only be described as chaotic. The first ten days...

Jun 21, 20243 min read
Welcome to Jamaica
I’m now wrapping up my fifth year as a PhD student at the University of Toronto and am conducting my third summer of co-leading...
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