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Student Program - Namibia Spring 2012 (12)

  • Posted On May 15
    May 10, 2012 Well, its over; our time in Namibia has come to an end. On Saturday May 5, 2012 we tearfully bid farewell to our home at Wereldsend....
  • Posted On May 11
      May 9, 2012   By Cora Baker-Lietz (Gustavus College) and Sara Whitney (University of Vermont)   It’s the start of another week, and with that, ...
  • Posted On Apr 30
    April 29, 2012 By Emily Seelen (Gustavus College) and Lisa Kubotera (University of Vermont) This week we started off at Wereldsend crushing ...
  • Posted On Apr 24
    April 22, 2012 By Lorna Reimers (aka "LOINA!") (University of Vermont) and Cora Baker-Lietz (aka "Corndog") (Gustavus College)   ...
  • Posted On Apr 16
    April 14, 2012 By Chris Kelly (Lafayette College) and Jake Hostnik (University of Vermont)   Our week started out with our return to Palmfonte...

Student Program - Botswana Spring 2012 (10)

  • Posted On May 15
    Team Botswana! (from left: Molly, Sara, Sarah, Drew, Lindsey, Vince, Eoghan, Jordan, Ben, Elena, Amanda) We went back to NG-29 (a wildernes...
  • Posted On Apr 18
    April 17, 2012 By Molly Shane (Middlebury College)   We shuffled to the car in the chilly morning air; the clock read 6:34 AM. We were heading...
  • Posted On Apr 12
    April 5th By Elena Rakowski (Northland College)     A Routine Game Drive…and Then…! Location: Chobe National Park riverfront Time: 6 PM ...
  • Posted On Apr 10
    April 1st, 2012 By Drew Vanetsky (University of New Mexico '11) This week we moved our camp from Ngamiland to Linyanti.  We got to stay at Sedia...
  • Posted On Apr 03
    March 17, 2012 By Eoghan Doyle (University of New Mexico) There is often a dichotomous truth to be found between differing points of view. Thoug...

Student Program - Patagonia Spring 2012 (7)

  • Posted On Apr 09
    Our last few weeks together have been full of excitement. We spent the autumnal equinox scrambling over boulders, fording rivers, and celebrating Eli’...
  • Posted On Apr 09
    For the past few months the Round River crew and I have lived in a semi-isolated state, flitting in between periods of contact with visitors, park s...
  • Posted On Mar 24
    On the evening of March 6th we piled into our two vehicles and set out to the Eastern edge of the Chacabuco Valley. We left behind the Los Alamos Ca...
  • Posted On Mar 24
    We awake daily at 0800 hours to a breakfast consisting of creative conglomerations of oatmeal, cheerios, hot chocolate mix, hot water, and o...
  • Posted On Mar 04
    My legs feel like they are pumping battery acid and my pack feels like I am carrying a load of bricks.  I am regretting every extra ounce of weight I ...

Student Program - Namibia Fall 2011 (13)

  • Posted On Jan 06
    Here are some beautiful photos taken by Cassidy Francik in Namibia. Enjoy!   "A female lioness walked through the plains of Etosha Natoinal Park d...
  • Posted On Dec 15
    December 11, 2011 By Vikki Endjala (Polytech of Namibia) and Ariane LeClerq (Carleton College)   This week we had to leave our beloved base ca...
  • Posted On Dec 12
    By Jesse Miller (Middlebury College) and Michele Louis (The New School) December 10th, 2011 (on the dunes! Skeleton Coast. Photo by Bekah Karimi) ...
  • Posted On Dec 06
    December 5, 2011 By Ellie Youngblood (Carleton College) and Mackenzie Hogfeldt (Northland College)   This blog entry is entitled “When Nomads ...
  • Posted On Nov 30
    By Avery Shawler (Middlebury College) and Cassidy Francik (University of Vermont)   Sixty-five days, twenty-six campsites later and we’ve come ...

Student Program - Taku Summer 2011 (8)

  • Posted On Aug 24
    August 7th, 2011 This program has truly been incredible and incredibly meaningful. As I came in, I hardly had a beginning knowledge of what wild...
  • Posted On Aug 14
    Vision of the Taku: I’m lost to a day dream late into the night, seduced by the rhythmic murmur of water moving over rocks. The river peels pa...
  • Posted On Aug 03
      6:00am –Wake up, prepare breakfast, make ultra-strong coffee & tea 6:45am –Enter Suburban with companions: 3-4 to a seat with an improvised...
  • Posted On Jul 26
    We have recovered from our trip to the Nakina River and we are now fully immersed in our research projects. Round River’s resident biologist, Kim, h...
  • Posted On Jul 23
    I asked the rest of the group to write very brief reflections (six words, a haiku, a quote, etc.) of their time on the Nakina River to represent ...

Idaho Wolverine Project - 2011 (5)

  • Posted On Mar 01
    This short NPR piece mentions Kim Heinemeyer and Round River's wolverine research in Idaho! Wolverines Stage Comeback in the Northwest, But For How L...
  • Posted On Feb 21
    Watch these 2 videos to see what we've been up to!   Wolverine Trap & Release from Round River Conservation Studies on Vimeo.       Waiting ...
  • Posted On Feb 21
    Will climbing a tree to set up hanging bait.  Don't worry there's a ton of pow on the ground if he fell! Here is a wolverine from one of our ca...
  • Posted On Feb 19
    Well, one month into the wolverine project and we basically don’t have any friends around town. Whenever we attempt to go out and socialize at the l...
  • Posted On Feb 18
    Check out our latest project update and learn what we've been up to!   http://www.roundriver.org/images/stories/PDF-documents/wolverinewinterrecreat...

Student Program - Namibia Spring 2011 (12)

  • Posted On May 13
    May 7, 2011 By Sarah Carroll (Cabrillo College) On the first of May, in celebration of completing our finals, we finally had the chance to do wh...
  • Posted On May 10
    April 30th, 2011 By Rauna Gebhard (Polytechnic Institute of Namibia '11) It’s unbelievable to realize that we have finally come to the end of o...
  • Posted On May 02
    April 18-23, 2011 By Rebekah Woodin (University of Vermont) Our week began with a preview of our return home. We arrived at the Ehi-Rivopuka Con...
  • Posted On May 02
    April 9th 2011 By Rachel Brooks (University of Vermont) The concept of camping for three months was never really a reality until April 9th, whe...
  • Posted On May 02
    April 8th By Allie Konkowski (University of New Hampshire)   Greetings to all of our followers! We are now, unbelievably, concluding our 7th week...

Alumni Updates (2)

  • Posted On Mar 18
    Read our latest newsletter here! http://www.roundriver.org/images/stories/PDF-documents/rr_alumninewsletter_issue2.pdf...
  • Posted On Oct 30
    Hi everyone, It is my pleasure to present you with our first Alumni Newsletter! http://www.roundriver.org/images/stories/PDF-documents/rrcs_alumni_n...

Board Members – Doug Peacock (2)

  • Posted On Nov 07
    Today’s grizzly bears of Yellowstone are staring down the greatest threat to their survival since the park was founded in 1872. The most important ...
  • Posted On Nov 07
    When Desert Solitaire hit the bookstores in 1968, the world was introduced to a writer who was at once eloquent, angry, poetic, crude and funny as he...

Student Program Director Doug Milek (1)

  • Posted On Aug 13
    So, the Taku program is over, and the Wyoming program ends today...

Student Program– Wyoming Summer 2010 (25)

  • Posted On Aug 12
    The Tetons loom in the distance beyond the high plateau of the Absaroka Mountains....
  • Posted On Aug 12
    Students take the evening to catch up on Grinnell Journals and a few sketch the landscape from our campfire. During this trip we took two full days...
  • Posted On Aug 12
    These dramatic cliffs form the walls of deep drainages in the Absarokas. This vista was the backdrop of our campfire evening discussions for the w...
  • Posted On Aug 09
    A Wyoming inspired poem written by Matt Stone.
  • Posted On Aug 09
    A poem and pictures posted by Anna Schmidt.

Student Program – Taku Summer 2010 (16)

  • Posted On Aug 12
    I think it's fair to say that no one will return home unchanged..
  • Posted On Aug 12
    Images from the Taku
  • Posted On Aug 06
    Wilderness. A seemingly simple word, yet it can evoke a range of emotions, thoughts, and reactions ... [Individuals] definitions of wilderness......
  • Posted On Aug 03
    Mark Twain, one of my favorite authors, wrote in his autobiography, “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Th...
  • Posted On Jul 31
    The past two weeks in B.C. have been spent conducting fieldwork in the surroundings of Atlin: measuring lichen height and canopy cover in plots of l...

Student Program– Namibia Fall 2010 (13)

  • Posted On Dec 15
    Hey all! Tonight is our last and final night after three long months in Namibia! Before I talk about our last night together, I’ll give you a low down...
  • Posted On Dec 01
    Hey! We are now back in Wereldsend Camp, to complete our finals and prepare for our last week in Namibia. What we thought was just going to be a week ...
  • Posted On Nov 20
    It was a cold rain, rushing down from the sky to soak a pile of plates left on the rusty foldout table. Darkness surrounded the chilly shanty camp; it...
  • Posted On Nov 15
    This week we finished up our interview work in the Sorris-Sorris conservancy and headed to Etosha National Park (ENP) for a brief vacation. Upon enter...
  • Posted On Nov 08
    This week the Round River Namibia students said good-bye to Kim, who came from Montana to help us with the elephant population project, and headed ...

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