IB Honors Biology Professor Chris Cheng might at least have hung a "gone fishin'" sign on her door when she left in July, but between cancelled flights and flooded labs, I guess she didn't have time. None the less, she is off taking advantage of a rare opportunity for winter field work in Antarctica. Also on the voyage are Prof. Art Devries from Illinois and Paul Cziko, a former Honors Biology student and now a grad student at the University of Oregon.
Paul, when his fingers are thawed and the deck is relatively stable, has also been the unofficial scribe. At the time of his latest blog, it sounds like heavy duty fishing has been temporarily put on hold by the ocean freezing over. Nevertheless, Prof. Cheng has managed to get out for some old-style casting.
Josie Chambers has thought for quite a while that she wanted to do research on primates. This summer, monkeys are also in her sights. She arranged a summer internship in Costa Rica, helping a graduate student from Washington State University. They are focusing on white-faced capuchins,
and their behavior. Josie sent an email update earlier in the summer. Go there for more on this.
Neeraj Joshi, by contrast, arranged his summer internship with WHO in Geneva. Until he comes back with all his stories, the objective when he left was to work on a project involving education and children's survival and success in South Asia. Come back to this page later for an update. I guess that will also be what I can tell you for now about the summer peregrinations of Merla Hubler who worked in a clinic and did health campaigns in Peru, and Katie Murphy who followed her study abroad course in the Galapagos with a summer job at the Brookfield Zoo.
Last updated: 8/26/08