Southwest trip 2025 For the past six summers, I’ve had the privilege of calling the desert Southwest my “office.” Each June, I’d pack up an extended-wheelbase Sprinter van, meet my co-guides, and welcome a new — and always incredible — group of high schoolers. The next 35 days would blur together in a rhythm of

In late June 2025, I had the pleasure of guiding my 7th trip down the Green River from Mineral Bottom to Spanish Bottom in Canyonlands National Park. The stretch is mostly flatwater, winding through deep sandstone canyons,  temperatures this year reach the upper 90s and the river flowed steadily around 4,000cfs. Days began early to

Biodiversity and ecosystem function are often tightly linked — but what happens when space and succession come into play? My research explores this question using the California Pitcher Plant (Darlingtonia californica), whose pitcher shaped leaves host an aquatic community teeming with bacteria and protozoa that help digest trapped insects. By sampling fifty pitcher leaves across

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