The neighborhood volcano

Evening walk up the neighborhood volcano

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I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.

Zee and the Glacier Mouse

A glacier mouse is a ball of moss that forms around a pebble and gets blown around on a glacier. Lots of tiny animals live inside of it!

More Adventures of Zee...

Fjord expedition

Heading up the fjord (Hvalfjörður, Iceland) to do some oceanography with @BowdoinCollege #EOSIceland #sketch #tbt #lastweek

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Glacier Lagoon

Sketching ash-marbled icebergs as they float by, on their way from Breiðamerkurjökull glacier to the ocean. #iceland #sketch #eosiceland

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Pahoehoe

Bowdoin student @elliewanders finds the orientation of a pahoehoe lava flow (this ropy-looking rock, splotched with lichens and surrounded by moss) that we encountered in a lava field near Reykjavik, Iceland

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