In the Field

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 ZealandCatadromous 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, MicronesiaPohnpei, Micronesia

I see the island of Pohnpei as a rare orchid growing on a highway median between lanes of heavy traffic. More

 

YellowstoneYellowstone

A wild trout, tiny, perfect, in a stream made of no more than puddles connected by ribbons of water. More

 

Monarch ButterfliesMonarch Butterflies

Over winter with an estimated 150 million Monarch butterflies in the Oyamel Fir forests of central Mexico. More

 

Autumn Run of the EelsAutumn 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. LawrenceEels of the St. Lawrence

This trip was research for a National Geographic article I'm writing on eels. More