Puerto Rico 2022

Aug 24, 20222 min read

Last few weeks and back in Toronto

I’m writing this from my office at the university of Toronto, surrounded by the bits and pieces of field work detritus that I have yet to...

Aug 8, 20222 min read

From very dry to very wet: Aguirre and Carite

We are now well over the half-way mark of the field season which means we have all settled into a more or less efficient groove. Everyone...

Jul 25, 20221 min read

At high elevations in Toro Negro

We are now wrapping up our third site. I think we are about half-way through the field season? It is hard to tell as we have lost all...

Jul 19, 20222 min read

Guanica State Forest

We’re wrapping up our sampling of our second field sites. This week we were sampling in the dry forests outside of the town of Guanica....

Jul 12, 20221 min read

El Yunque National Forest

I’m here in Puerto Rico sitting down for the first moment of “free time” we’ve had since arrival. The day we arrived we (the team from...

Jul 1, 20221 min read

Field work in Puerto Rico 2022

Over the course of the summer from early July to mid-August, I will be in Puerto Rico conducting extensive field research for my PhD. ...