Helena Shilomboleni ’09 is completing her PhD in the social and ecological sustainability of food systems at Canada’s University of Waterloo, examining food security in Mozambique through two local organizations.
Alex Borowicz ’14, Antarctic field guide and PhD student in ecology and evolution at Stony Brook University, New York, speaks about his love of the creatures and vistas of the South Pole.
Hiyasmin Saturay ’15, creator of the film Pangandoy: The Manobo fight for land, education and their future on the struggles of a Philippine indigenous group, speaks about her commitment to her homeland.
Through observation, field research, and archival searches, summer research sessions by COA students on Great Duck are amassing a thorough ecology of this one small island.
As a researcher, Chris Petersen is focused on the reproductive behavior and biology of fish. He says. “I am, most of all, a behavioral ecologist, trying to understand why animals behave the way they do.”
Whether reading an account of the Tuolumne Meadows, volunteering in Yosemite National Park, or spending the weekend visiting a local ranching family, students in The Great West Course saw the American West in its own light—impossible to do from a classroom in Maine.