Tropical Storm “Dolphin” Near Pohnpei, Micronesia!

Saturday, May 9, 2015 11:46 pm Me in a mangrove forest as part of a UW study abroad trip in Pohnpei, Micronesia during the summer of 2013. Almost two years ago, I went on a UW study abroad trip to Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia to learn about coastal ecosystems, and it was […]

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Videos From My Micronesia/Hawaii Trip

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 12:14 A.M. 2:08 A.M. – I finally have all the videos on their respective blogs as well. I will number the videos, from top to bottom, and tell you the blog they correspond to. 1: Hawaii Day 3: Sea To Sky 2 and 3: Micronesia: Day 4 4 and 7: Micronesia: […]

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Hawaii Day 2 (Micronesia Day 19) – A Host of Interesting Things

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 11:53 P.M. Today was a good day. I was able to sleep in until 11:45 or so, which is good because I was absolutely exhausted from staying up and editing the day 17 blog (I’m still working on some of the videos, but trust me, they are worth it). Today, we […]

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Micronesia: Day 17 – Globetrotting Day

Monday, July 8, 2013 The writing that you see in italics was written on July 8, 2013 at 2:40 P.M. Hawaii time. This post gives an overview of my travel day yesterday. I had a last breakfast with everybody in the morning, and then they all left to go do some field work counting seagrasses […]

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Micronesia: Day 15 – Public Health Signs, Kolonia, and The Rusty Anchor

Saturday, July 6, 2013 11:34 P.M. Anybody know what this means? Ok, I started this and uploaded all the pictures at 11:34 P.M. on Saturday, but now it is 9:32 P.M. on Sunday and I am just beginning to actually type about what happened. Well, let’s get to it before it all washes out of […]

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Micronesia: Day 14 – Sakau, Seagrasses and Sunsets

Water just outside the barrier reef surrounding Pohnpei, Micronesia – 7/5/13 Friday, July 5, 2013 8:34 P.M. Good evening everybody. Well, for all my readers in Seattle, I should say “good before-sunbreak everyone.” Anyway, it’s Friday evening here, and I had a spectacular end to a spectacular week. First off, let me upload some pictures […]

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Micronesia: Day 13

Friday, July 5, 2013 1:22 A.M. Even though I’m writing this post on Friday, this post is about Thursday and July 4th. Today was a pretty chill day. As a nice break, we went to the U.S. embassy in Kolonia for a 4th of July party. There were American flags, patriotic songs sung by adorable […]

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Micronesia: Day 11 – The End?

Tuesday, June 2, 2013 4:21 P.M. There’s been a change in plans. The UW IPE is ordering me to go home. Of course, I don’t want to go home, my professor doesn’t want me to go home, my parents don’t want me to go home, and the other kids on the trip don’t want me […]

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Micronesia: Day 7

Saturday June 29, 20123:07 P.M. So I have this big assignment that I got to write up tonight, but this is good because I can just change a few words and stuff and use it for my blog as well. Or, I could write it in my blog, publish my blog, and then change a […]

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Micronesia: Day 5 – Nan Madol Ruins

Started 9:38 P.M. on 6/28/13 ___________________ Alright. Now it’s 10:49 P.M. and the pictures haven’t even started uploading, so time to switch to Chrome from Firefox. I’m an open source guy, but man, Google knows how to know things. ____________________ Well, well, well. It’s now 11:47 P.M., and I’m not yet tired, so I will […]

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