Photo Gallery
Welcome to my photo album! Here, I'll share photos of all my favorite moments from the summer!
06/07/2024
The nighttime view of flying into Quito (UIO) from Oklahoma City (OKC).
06/08/2024
A store I stopped at in Quito to pick up some last-minute research gear.
06/09/2024
A museum I stopped at after my flight from Quito to Coca, a small city in the Amazon basin which serves as the port to travel to the research stations.
06/10/2024
Dinner at Tiputini Biodiversity Station after a long day of travel by boat, car, then boat again.
06/11/2024
A tarantula with two missing legs on the outside of the station bathrooms.
06/12/2024
A colony of bats living on the big tree near the laboratory building.
06/13/2024
Us looking at the species of tree we were supposed to be finding the fruit of for the frugivory project
06/14/2024
The welcome center pavilion I was sitting at while trying to photograph some monkeys.
06/15/2024
The view from the canopy tower after a huge rainstorm before susnet.
06/16/2024
A starry sky from the perspective of the riverbank of Rio Tiputini.
06/17/2024
A Blunt-headed Tree Snake that was found in the dying minutes of a nocturnal visual encounter survey.
06/18/2024
My attempt at trying to get a good camera photo of a Two-toed Sloth that was right in camp.
06/19/2024
A little Santa Cecelia Glass Frog that decided it wanted to come do the rest of the survey with me.
06/20/2024
Some species of strange Praying Mantis that was ready for a fight outside the lab.
06/21/2024
One of only three species of salamander in the entire Ecuadorian Amazon Basin: the Amazonian Climbing Salamander.
06/22/2024
An in-situ shot of a Panama-spotted Night Snake on my favorite night survey trail of Tiputini Biodiversity Station.
06/23/2024
A mating pair of Phyllomedusa Frogs found on the final TBS survey before changing stations.
06/24/2024
A good look at the Yasuni Research Station campus garden and lodging quarters.
06/25/2024
Colorful Jell-O cups served to us as a dessert, a favorite of many of the researchers at YRS.
06/26/2024
My top target for the trip, a Green Anaconda, which I caught by diving into a canal right in camp.
06/27/2024
One of two Western Rainbow Boas found on my first night survey at YRS.
06/28/2024
The palm swamp we had to traverse through to set up camera traps, which felt like a scene straight out of Jurassic Park.
06/29/2024
A starry sky from the perspective of the riverbank of Rio Tiputini.
06/30/2024
Some crazy cordyceps fungus straight out of The Last of Us that caused this grasshopper to meet its maker.
07/01/2024
The famous Pipa pipa frog in the flooded puddle near YRS camp, fully aquatic, flat as a pancake, and their babies hatch out of their backs!
07/02/2024
A young caiman on the path of a night survey in the middle of the forest during a period of heavy rain.
07/03/2024
An Aquatic Coralsnake in the flooded area near YRS camp, a very venomous species.
07/04/2024
The Maxus Oil Road that cuts through the habitat at YRS after a morning downpour.
07/05/2024
Both the Scarlet and Blue and Yellow Macaws hanging out together in a roadside tree, taken through the lens of some binoculars.
07/06/2024
An interesting stick insect on a night survey where there was not much else out and about.
07/07/2024
A Perez's Snouted Frog hopping around while doing some daytime fieldwork.
07/08/2024
The taco dinner we were provided after arriving back to TBS.
07/09/2024
An small Pygmy Owl seen while doing an early-morning birding expedition for one of the team members' birthdays.
07/10/2024
A jaguar print out on the trails in comparison with my boot. We followed this cat's path for nearly a mile before the tracks disappeared.
07/11/2024
One of many clearwing butterflies encountered throughout the trip.
07/12/2024
The family of capybaras at TBS finally stopped eluding us this evening by the water tanks.
07/13/2024
An ocelot captured by one of our camera traps, discovered during a morning going through images.
07/14/2024
The small colony of Proboscis Bats just outside the dining hall during a free afternoon.
07/15/2024
The first snake of the night from a survey where we found 6 different species of snake: the Amazon Egg-eater.
07/16/2024
The nighttime view of Rio Tiputini after narrowly avoiding a big storm.
07/17/2024
Some perspective on just how small some of the snakes were: a juvenile Copper Parrot Snake on a miracle spot, perched on some creekside vegetation.
07/18/2024
The elusive Giant Earthworm found after returning from a summer-high 7 snake survey.
07/19/2024
A macro shot of the very pretty Upper Amazon Treefrog, located near the flooded area by the TBS docks.
07/20/2024
The ever-present Blunt-headed Treesnake from a survey where 3 different individuals were found.
07/21/2024
My Nikon came in handy when photographing this White-lined Leaf Frog on the final evening hike of TBS just for fun!
07/22/2024
A photo of a juvenile Upper Amazon Treefrog that I edited on the travel day back to YRS.
07/23/2024
A Striped Sharpnose Snake was a great welcome back to YRS, and a decent start to the final leg of the fieldwork.
07/24/2024
A group of frog eggs in the flooded canal just behind the living quarters.
07/25/2024
The toxicologists that found an Anaconda during their own night survey were kind enough to let me photograph it with my camera.
07/26/2024
The yellow phase of the highly variable Amazon Tree Boa, which ended up being the only snake of the night.
07/27/2024
Some grounded seeds I helped collect for my mentor's project.
07/28/2024
The first Olive Forest Racer of the trip on an unusually chilly night of surveying.
07/29/2024
My favorite snake of the trip: the Emerald Green Tree Boa, one of the most elusive snakes in this region of the rainforest.
07/30/2024
A strange view of the sky from the botanical gardens of the YRS campus.
07/31/2024
An unidentified, but very unique looking, insect found just outside our lab space.
08/01/2024
One of many tarantulas seen throughout the trip, though this one popped out of the leaf fold very fast and surprised me.
08/02/2024
The final, and 100th, snake of the trip: a Ribbon Coralsnake cruising through a now dried-up canal in very different climatic conditions than one month earlier.
08/03/2024
Finally out of the jungle in the mountain town of Papallacta, where I spent a day relaxing in the volcanic hot springs.
08/04/2024
Made my way back to Quito to explore for the afternoon before departing for the airport to head home.
