Monday & Tuesday After getting some rest over the weekend, IE students start their week by working on individual research projects (ENEC...

With our semester winding to a close and only a month left until final exams, I decided to reflect on our time at the field site so far....

Are you the type of person going to the mountain, taking a picture, stopping at the tourist center, wandering around tourist towns for...

Not much is known about these elusive little owls.

Modern society is fundamentally reliant on plastics whether we want to admit it or not.

A great aspect of the Highlands Field Site program is getting to go outside and apply all that we've learned in the classroom into the...

A reoccurring topic in our classes is the Anthropocene: an epoch defined by the measurable impact of humanity on the geologic record....

As scientists (or aspiring scientists, in Highlands IE students’ case), our job is to make sense of what we see around us. Our curious...

I, alongside my classmate and research partner, Gus, have been assigned a semester-long individual research project that entails the...

One of our courses here at the Highlands Field Site is our Capstone course, Analysis and Solution of Environmental Problems. This course...

This past week has been busy for both our internships and capstone. My internship is focused on conducting surveys for the common...

As part of our semester at the Highlands Biological Station, my classmate Noa and I are working on research with the incredible Dr. Rada...