Feb 14, 20232 min readDominican Republic 2023Winter field work in the Dominican republicWelcome back to field work updates and stories gathered while doing my PhD field work in the Caribbean. I will be spending the next month...
Aug 24, 20222 min readPuerto Rico 2022Last few weeks and back in TorontoI’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 readPuerto Rico 2022From very dry to very wet: Aguirre and CariteWe 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 readPuerto Rico 2022At high elevations in Toro NegroWe 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 readPuerto Rico 2022Guanica State ForestWe’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 readPuerto Rico 2022El Yunque National ForestI’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 readPuerto Rico 2022Field work in Puerto Rico 2022Over the course of the summer from early July to mid-August, I will be in Puerto Rico conducting extensive field research for my PhD. ...