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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 23, 20241 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 13, 20244 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 9, 20241 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...
Aug 6, 20242 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 23, 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 17, 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...
Jul 3, 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...
Jun 21, 20243 min read
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