Pacific Prairie Wildflowers
Offered: April-June
Camas lilies still dominate the prairies at Sagehen Creek, near Lake Tahoe and in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. These meadows so impressed explorers Lewis and Clark that they described them…
Life in the Rainforest Canopy
Offered: February
The frontier of rainforest research is in the canopy, home to perhaps half of the world's biodiversity and most of it waiting to be discovered. The treetops of Queensland's Wet…
Rainforests of Northern Australia
Offered: April, September, November
With steep mountains and rolling, lush expanses of rainforest, the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area is home to more than 2,000 plant species, half of all Australian bird species, and…
Storm Petrels Over Portugal
Offered: June
The southern tip of Portugal is renowned for its rich cultural history and brilliant sand beaches broken by rugged rocky headlands. What many people do not realize is that this…
Whales and Dolphins of Moray Firth
Offered: June-October
This 5,000-square-kilometer embayment, surrounded by majestic cliffs, rolling farmland, and heritage fishing villages, is fed by both warm and cold waters from the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. Its productive waters…
Desert Elephants of Namibia
Offered: May-September
Running from Etosha National Park in the east to Skeleton Coast National Park in the west, 12 ephemeral rivers form linear oases through this semiarid stretch of the Namib Desert.…
Elephants of Tsavo
Offered: March-May, July, October, November
The Tsavo ecosystem harbors Kenya's largest and most important single population of elephants, numbering more than 10,000. But not all of this ecosystem is protected, and fragmentation of the elephant's…
South African Penguins
Offered: March-August
Infamous as Nelson Mandela's former incarceration site, this island is a hotspot for seabird biodiversity, including threatened bank cormorants, African black oystercatchers, and 15,000 African penguins. It also lies in…
Bahamian Reef Survey
Offered: June, July, November
Right now, coral reefs are at serious risk due to climate change, coastal development, overfishing, and other environmental stressors continue. One of the first signs that corals may be in…
Teach English To Eager Students in Greece
Offered: April, June-August, October
If you are a native English speaker, you can be an important classroom resource. Help promising young students learn the international language of commerce, technology, and opportunity! During the school…
