September 30th was a bittersweet day for the spruce crew. Time had been a stressor for our last few days of fieldwork; bear hunting...

“Many many years ago, before humans existed on this earth, the sky held only light. There were no people yet, there were only animals....

As we head into Halloween, a time for candy, costumes, and all things spooky, I wanted to highlight one of our favorite mascots for this...

On Thursday morning of August 25, some of us students hopped into the van with Jason for our first day of internship fieldwork. We drove...

Since I arrived in Highlands, I have been taking in everything to the fullest. I spent the first few days wandering around getting lost...

Everybody knows that salamanders are wicked cool. Since you were little, we have all spent hours and hours turning over rocks and logs,...

The seasons are beginning to change here at the biological station, and the air is turning crisp. For the IE students, this means that we...

North Carolina, and particularly the mountains have a long history of fire detection, the oldest pieces of which can still be found...

The students here at Highlands Biological Station arrived a few weeks ago and have been settling into the new landscape, myself included....

Trees and fields of green blur past me as I kick my legs out and soar down the hill, smiling, laughing, and embracing a feeling I have...

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...

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