This page will eventually become a collection of my reviews of Environmental Impact Assessments conducted in the Bahamas. The links lead to a Science and Perspective copy of the EIA as published, then a link to my comments on the EIA as submitted to the developer and the Department of Environmental Planning and Protection. I will also include a brief summary of the EIA. Enjoy.

  • Executives, Orders and Administrators

    Hello everyone, I am writing this in response, partly to questions and concerns of my fellow international students. I had already intended to write a post about recent changes in the local and global climate. Most importantly, if I do not say something, I feel I am also part of the problem. Here, I will…

  • Ethics looking inward

    As I hear about the studies my colleagues are doing, I consider the ethics of the work. Much of it surrounds trapping, surgery, labeling, sex, mating and eventually death, and dismemberment, though death and dismemberment are not always in that order. While we continue to conduct science for the greater good of the planet (ostensibly)…

  • Welcome Back Miami

    Welcome Back Miami

    As you trickle back into your classrooms, dorm rooms and offices, you can feel the somber mood. There is tension as people wait for what comes next. The world has changed over the past year in ways few would have imagined. I am writing this to tell you, it has not. This moment, today, tomorrow,…

  • Love and Honor

    Love and Honor Look around you. Our brothers and sisters are hurting. Visions of Love and Honor lost in plain sight. Each and every one with a beautiful story to be told. How do you see them? Outsider? Unamerican? Unworthy? Now is the time to find Love beyond tolerance, Honor beyond lawfulness. Our choices create…

  • Welcome 2017

    Well, we are on our way! 1.5 hours and we will see a new year. It has been an amazing, joyous, heart rending, confusing, enlightening, year of risk, reward, challenge, change and most importantly love. I have found friends and allies in unexpected places, pulled my family closer and distanced myself from those that do…