The Study of ENVIRONMENTAL Conservation & sustainability

One of the final steps to becoming an Eagle Scout is the Eagle project. It’s an opportunity for scouts to display their leadership abilities by leading a project that will benefit their community. I wanted to give back to my school’s community for all of the opportunities & guidance that I’ve received throughout my time… Continue reading

As mentioned in a previous blog post, I wanted to make the most out of my time this summer by helping out local communities with sustainable conservation. After reaching out to my local home owners association and then the Board of Trustees at my local pool. We decided that a recycling program was needed down… Continue reading

I sit comfortably in my plane seat, exhausted after my redeye flight from Ecuador, as I fly into Charlotte from the Atlanta airport. When suddenly the pilot comes over the intercom and says, “We will be making our landing without our front landing gear.” He tells us to “brace for impact upon landing,” and to… Continue reading

As we continued our walk, hiking over hardened lava (igneous rock), I looked around in all directions in awe at just how far the igneous rock spanned. I remember looking down and seeing small plants growing where I thought no plants would even be able to grow. It looked like a rose growing out of… Continue reading

We approached the rocky shoreline where Darwin’s H.M.S. Beagle landed when he first arrived to the Galápagos Islands. I realized that this little cove was where we’ll be snorkeling at for the first time in my life. We climbed over the rocks, making our way past the Sea Lions, and jumped into the surprisingly warm… Continue reading

We began our hike at roughly 9:00pm. As we embarked on a journey through the dark and dense forest, I thought back to the reading we did early that day. The reading simply talked about how humans were not made to survive in the Jungle. Simple yet humbling, I remember thinking “how could the most… Continue reading

Flooding and biodiversity loss are two interconnected challenges that often go unnoticed. However, during my Honors Biology class field trip to the Rappahannock River, I had a revealing experience that showed me the critical importance of floodplains and wetlands in preserving biodiversity. In this blog post, I will share my personal experience from learning about… Continue reading

Context In my Biology class, we’ve been learning about Gregor Mendel’s pea plant experiment and how he used the offspring of pea plants to determine that traits are transmitted from the parents to the offspring; in what Mendel considered the golden ratio. Coincidentally in my statistics class we’re learning about the same statistical test Gregor… Continue reading

The ozone layer has been a controversial topic of discussion for many decades. Ozone is a chemical, made from 3 oxygen atoms, which absorbs UV light from the sun, procecting the Earth from the harsh UV light. However, the amount of ozone also has an effect on the temperature of our planet, and when ozone… Continue reading