Back in January, when 2013 was still a brand new year, all shiny and fresh, I was driving to Pawling Central School, to give my first post-Midway talk about plastic. Readers of this blog will recall that in my last post, I wrote briefly about Skyping with a couple of 7th grade science classes from…
Hello, blogging world! You might have noticed, upon closer inspection of this blog link, that things look a little different around here. Your eyes haven’t fooled you. Welcome to the year 2013, 7 In the Ocean! There have been a ton of changes happening in my life: personal, financial, work-related and I thought, “Can’t stop…
Because why not start your Sunday with a cute, adorable photo of a white tern? 😉
[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=Midway+Atoll&aq=&sll=37.6,-95.665&sspn=59.835084,135.263672&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Midway+Island&ll=28.210076,-177.37611&spn=0.029964,0.041226&layer=c&cbll=28.213461,-177.375001&panoid=pyHus1pW9T2JOb19YPu44Q&cbp=12,154.4,,0,0&output=svembed&w=425&h=350] See that cute little duplex? That’s where I lived on Midway. Say whaaaaat?! Yeah! I kid you not. The side with the random blue boogie board was home to all of Midway’s eager volunteers and we loved that place oh-so-much. Thanks to the power of Google, now you guys can see the island…
Hello, blog-o-sphere, I always wondered why it was called that. “Blogosphere.” Who came up with that term? Oh, turns out someone actually did coin the phrase: Brad Graham. Thanks, Internet. And hats off to you, Brad, for your contribution to society. I should see if the word has made it into the dictionary yet. 😉…
For those of you wondering where the heck I disappeared to, worry not! I’ve just hopped down to the Big island to start a new volunteer gig. 😉 That’s my house, right there ^. I’ve decided that slate glass windows really are fantastic. Anyway. For the next 2 months, I’ll be working with USGS on their…
Let me start by saying that this post probably wouldn’t be happening if I wasn’t on Midway right now. Why? Well, simply put…I wouldn’t have an attachment to this place. It sounds strange, but it’s because of all the things that have happened during this last month or so that I’m able to write this…
Oh, the irony: smiling, happy faces stamped on plastic bottle caps don’t belong in the belly of a baby albatross. They shouldn’t exist in the first place!
This is what insanity looks like.
I’ve been mulling over how to approach this blog post for about a week now. Why? Because, quite frankly, I haven’t been sure of what to say. This post, to nobody’s surprise, is about plastic. I talk about plastic all the time though, and a lot of people already know about the plastic pollution problem…
Hey all! Three weeks in and I’m still surprised at how fast/slow/weird the time acts here. Some days feel like they’re never going to end and other times, I’m still trying to figure out how it got to be Friday already. Every day is an adventure and brings something new! The highlight of this week…
So says Bob, the man sitting across the aisle from me in the G-2 plane we took to get to Midway a week ago yesterday. He’s right and for some reason, I don’t believe it until we’re on the tarmac…on Midway. It’s surreal: leave Honolulu at 7pm, hurdle across the ocean for 2 hours and…
The world may never know. But this is what ~35lbs looks like! I know what you’re thinking. “Ryan, you’re going away for 4 months! Surely you need more than that?” It turns out, even this might be too much! Let’s review the facts: I’m going to Midway. A very small island in the middle of…