Aug 231 min readJamaica 2024Rubber bootsI 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 134 min readJamaica 2024Saltfish and ackeeIn 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 91 min readJamaica 2024FirefliesDusk falls Light dims Hazy purple glow behind the trees. First a squint as the shadows lengthen, Inky wells of blackness pooling and...
Aug 62 min readJamaica 2024No plots at 800mFrom 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 233 min readJamaica 2024The soundscapes of field workFor the past two years in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, the language and rhythms of the music we heard have been Spanish...
Jul 173 min readJamaica 2024Marshall's PenIn the week that followed Hurricane Beryl, we had been intending on camping in some high elevation forests neat St. Catherines Peak....
Jul 33 min readJamaica 2024There be giantsOh 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 213 min readJamaica 2024Welcome to JamaicaI’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...