Recent Field Work
Suriname: Sipaliwini District, Wilhelmina Mountains
Peak 7.6 km N. of Juliana Top,
GPS: 3°N, 56°W; alt 905m
In late March – April 2010, I accompanied a collecting trip with the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University to a remote area of central Suriname that had never before been explored. Our collecting site was on an unnamed mountaintop above an unnamed river in what are the highest mountains of Suriname (the Wilhelmina Range). The greater region is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site called the Central Suriname Nature Preserve and considered to be one of the largest untouched tropical forests in the world. More
Previous Field Work
Catadromous Eels of New Zealand
In March of 2004 and March of 2006 I made visits to New Zealand to do research for a book on catadromous eels (a catadromous fish spawns in the ocean but lives its adult life in freshwater rivers and streams, the opposite of the salmon, an anadromous fish). More
Pohnpei, Micronesia
I see the island of Pohnpei as a rare orchid growing on a highway median between lanes of heavy traffic. More
Yellowstone
A wild trout, tiny, perfect, in a stream made of no more than puddles connected by ribbons of water. More
Monarch Butterflies
Over winter with an estimated 150 million Monarch butterflies in the Oyamel Fir forests of central Mexico. More
Autumn Run of the Eels
Photos are from a visit to Ray Turner's fishing trap, or weir, on the East Branch of the Delaware River, near Hancock, New York.. More
Eels of the St. Lawrence
This trip was research for a National Geographic article I'm writing on eels. More
