My life can be summed up by two words: science and travel.

I was born and raised in the San Francisco bay area, and now work as a biologist in the Florida Everglades. I caught the travel bug at an early age, but really became addicted in 2000 when I backpacked across Europe with a few friends following our high school graduation. Ever since that trip I have traveled every chance I get.

These days my travels are largely organized around biological exploration, following in the footsteps of the worlds great naturalists like Darwin, Bates, and Schultes. And just as was the case for the naturalists just listed, my interests focus heavily on the Amazon basin. Since 2001 my home away from home has been Ecuador, where I took a natural history of Ecuador and the Galapagos course. I hope to continue to study, work, and live in South America well into the future. Of course I will never turn down trips to other continents thrown in here and there to get some diversity!

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