Sarah Kurnick and students are working on a community archaeology project at Punta Laguna, a site of significant cultural importance to the contemporary Maya people who live there.
Motivated to share her wilderness experience and passion for science, Megan Blanchard co-founded Girls on Rock, a tuition-free wilderness excursion for high school girls in the heart of the Rocky Mountains.
Art and Rural Environments Field School is designed for students interested in exploring the unique relationship between art and the Western American environment.
Paleoclimatologist Sarah Crump, a PhD student and INSTARR researcher, studies the effects of climate variability in the Canadian Arctic by analyzing ancient DNA from lake sediment.
Last spring, two CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ students spent three weeks in South Africa studying post-Apartheid systems of leadership, peacekeeping and sustainable political development during a trip funded by Associate Vice Chancellor Alphonse Keasley.
This summer, undergraduate students Max Wasser and Grace Kendziorski are spending time trapping pikas and counting alpine flowers in the name of environmental research.
Ani Yahzid will be filming in the wilderness of Olympic National Park with hip hop musician Namaste. "The Exposure Film Project: When Hip Hop Meets the Outdoors" is an independent film Yahzid hopes will get millennials more engaged with the outdoors.
