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Wild Cape Cod Notebook
The last six weeks of summer have been a blur of intense activity on the Outer Cape Cod area. Emotional highs and lows and the awe of natural history in action have provided opportunities to witness...
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Into the Great Bear Rainforest
Some may know that many years ago we worked as commercial fishermen on vessels based in Seattle that made the yearly voyage to western Alaska via the incomparable “Inside Passage”, a magnificent...
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Winter Approaches
Aleutian Dream ( Courtesy Wayne Davis) Our work with the Massachusetts White Shark population study is winding down with only a couple of weeks to go to the end of the field season. The air and water...
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Raja Ampat: The Epicenter of Ocean biodiversity
A week has passed since we returned from Papua, Indonesia and a truly epic series of adventures with friends exploring the breathtaking underwater environment of the islands known as Raja Ampat. Having...
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Wild Patagonia: Peninsula Valdez
Once each year for about 6 weeks a unique spectacle of nature occurs in a remote part of Argentina’s wild Atlantic coast. In the beginning of March the young sea lions which were born about 6 weeks...
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Antarctica: The End of the Earth
More than two years ago I learned that my friend Ted Cheeseman was planning to bring a team of mammal researchers led by Ari Friedlander down to Antarctica very late in the season to enable the team to...
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Wild Patagonia: Of Condors & Cats
Fresh from an amazing expedition deep into the ice of Antarctica I hit the dock in Ushuaia, Argentina, head spinning, with one last important goal to complete before returning north and home. The Goal?...
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Spring in the Shadow of Mt. St Helens
Thirty six years ago Mt St. Helens exploded. For about sixty days the volcano had been giving clues of a pending event – starting with a 5.1 magnitude earthquake on March 2oth, 1980. Scientists...
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Wild Southeast Alaska: Spring Abundance
During the spring each year an amazing natural spectacle unfolds in Southeast Alaska. Creatures as large as humpback whales and as small as shorebirds square up in anticipation to feast on spawning...
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: At the Solstice
As spring turns to summer on Cape Cod we are again back out on the water to observe and marvel at the abundance of life returning to the area. On this day we were able to fly with our pilot friend and...
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Summer at Monomoy NWR
Summer is a siren that woos us on Cape Cod each year here into a state of contentment with warm breezes and sunny days and spectacular natural history in our maritime environment. Summer 2016 has been...
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: At the Equinox
The languid and steamy summer that we enjoyed on Cape Cod has transformed into cooler autumn weather pattern with ever more easterly winds and slowly cooling water temperatures. Sea ducks have begun...
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Wild Places and Wild Things: 2016 in Review
Autumn is in full swing here on the elbow of Cape Cod and it is a time for transition for most observers of the marine natural world in this parts. Ocean and air temperatures are slowly cooling and...
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Humpbacks on the Silver Bank
Late winter and early spring in the Caribbean waters between the southern Bahamas and the Dominican Republic means that North Atlantic humpback whales are in the area for their annual rituals of mating...
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Return to Wild Patagonia: Orcas!
When I had the good fortune to meet conservationist, and orca researcher Juan Manuel Capello in South Africa four years ago and learned about his story, I knew that I had to get to his part of the...
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Wild Southeast Alaska: Lights, Camera, Action!
Spring in Southeast Alaska is signaled by rapidly increasing daylight, robust waterfalls from melting snow and seasonal rains as well as the return and the aggregation of top predators. Humpback...
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Report from SE Alaska: Bald Eagle “Top Gun” School
On our recent trip to SE Alaska to observe the annual herring spawn spectacle (previously reported on) we made more than 5000 images of various wildlife in the region in almost two weeks! Yikes, that...
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Summer white shark research report
Our summer adventures here on Cape Cod have once again been breath taking and the time has passed quickly. As in the previous 3 years we are primarily engaged in a white shark population study which is...
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Wild Cape Cod Notebook: Summer Bird Migrations
We took a break from our field work tracking and photographing white sharks here on Cape Cod to head to a favorite birding spot on Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge and take a look at birds that are...
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