Off to the Peruvian Amazon!

Hey guys! It’s been a while! Exciting news… I will be traveling to Peru at the beginning of June to spend 2 months there to help do research on different kinds of Tamarin monkeys with a non-profit called Field Projects International! Here are a few pictures to help you visualize what I’ll be doing: These […]

The changing of the seasons

Hey guys! Happy OCTOBER!! Whoop! With the leaves starting to change and the colder weather rolling in, I am super pumped to be in a new place to experience my favorite season! I missed last fall since I was studying abroad in Chile and went from summer to coming back to winter. Fall makes me […]

Some Life Updates

Hellooo everyone! It’s been a while, and a lot has happened in that time haha. Lets start with a little life update since my last post… first lets begin by saying my last semester started off fantastic being back home from Chile and seeing all my friends and family again. But you all know what […]

Finally Published lol

When I came home from study abroad, my advisor was like “LUKE LOOK!!” and I took a look at her wall to see my picture inside the official SFS (The School for Field Studies) 2020 calendar. It’s pretty awesome to see my picture on the page for January after I JUST got home from the […]

Starting off the New Year right (kinda???)

Hey guys! I promise I’m alive and well haha (other than struggling quite a lot trying to adapt back to the ‘normal’ college experience). Sorry it’s been a while since I posted and I will fill you in on some of the cool things you missed. After my program I headed to Santiago to spend […]

Final conclusions

Merry Late Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful time with family and friends making new memories and maybe even some new traditions. The last weekish at the center consisted of touching up our final draft of our paper which was due on that Friday, and presenting to […]

Coming to a end

Hey there everyone! Sadly it’s coming to an end this upcoming week and this will be my 2nd to last blog update from the program This week has flown by, but in a good kind of way. It’s sad to know that we only have 8 days left on this program but the memories that […]

Jumping in streams & measuring trees

Happy (late) Thanksgiving from Chile! Hoping you all had a yummy meal and were able to spend quality time with friends and family. There is lots to be grateful for and most times it’s the things that are the closest to us. We are now back at the center until the program is over (December […]

Wrapping up classes

Hey everyone! Hoping that life is treating you well. This past week was our last field expedition where the whole group was all together (big sigh). We were at a place called Patagonia Bagual, which is privately owned land directly next to the national park – Torres del Paine. This was a beautiful area where […]

Spring break & more

Hey blog friends! These past few weeks have been something I will remember forever! Picking up from where I last left off, we traveled to Argentina to see the beautiful Perito Monero glacier and learn how impactful and well known it is across the world. We saw the complete history of glaciers in the Patagonian […]