Growing up on a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, I’ve been surrounded by people who constantly say “When I get older I’m getting off this rock.” I guess that’s understandable considering for a lot…

It’s hard to believe we’re already beyond the halfway point of the fellowship. It felt slow-going at first, with getting situated and trained, all the planning and background work; but now it’s a lot of…

So I am at the halfway point of my fellowship and I am definitely feeling the pressure. It may suck a bit to feel this way, but I enjoy telling myself, “embrace the suck!”, because…

I mentioned in my previous blog about the impacts non-native house mice have on the breeding albatross population on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (MANWR).

Communication is not emphasized in the field of science. The average education stresses results over how to communicate those results to the world. This is a skill that I argue is just as important as…

People often say that there are just two seasons in California: a long, dry summer and a mild, “less dry” winter. Others joke that California’s four seasons are earthquake, fire, flood, and drought. Pumpkin-spiced autumn…