Pretty big crowd today in Bangor, Maine!

He likes to stretch out like this. The name seemed fitting!

Today, Esker learned that candle ice is not for walking on.

March 2023, Tierra del Fuego. Our feathered field assistant kept wondering why were weren't dead yet. #condor #thismealistakingforever

Flashback to an early rise during summer '22 fieldwork in South Dakota. Unzipped the door of my tent to find out I was under investigation by this herd of curious horses.

I have learned that #shelfie is a thing. It brings me joy.

This warm spell has reminded me of Tierra del Fuego. Maybe it's the humidity? The smell of melting snow? The chilly breeze? Here's a whale vertebra, part of a nearly intact skeleton that served as a landmark while conducting fieldwork on Isla Navarino in early March, 2024.

Throwback to a beautiful drift limit lapping up onto a cinder cone in Antarctica. Koettlitz Glacier in the middle, Walcott and Howchin glaciers in the background.

Metabolizing cortisol in a winter wonderland.

🎶”…you may not share our intellect /
which might explain your disrespect /
for all the natural wonders that /
grow around you / so long, so long and thanks
/ for all the fish!”🎶

Two happy Peale’s dolphins putting on a show in the Beagle Channel, 2024.

The moon and Venus are looking pretty good tonight.

I think I just need to stare off into a sunset for a bit. Here’s some pretty sunset colors from Puerto Williams, Chile in April 2023.

Happy Monday! Here's Mount Erebus casting some fine reflections on McMurdo Sound in early 2019.

I now realize that my camera roll is >30% pictures of erratics. Here’s a photogenic boulder in a beaver pond! Tierra del Fuego, Chile.

Happy Friday! Here’s a shot from April of this year. One miserable “weather day” I emerged from reading in my bunk to take a snapshot of this rainbow in Coloane Fjord. Appropriately, I was reading “Tierra del Fuego” by Francisco Coloane, the namesake of this area.

A (mostly) sunny day along the Beagle Channel. April 2024.