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After a long day of travel, we arrived in Nassau, the Bahamas, mid afternoon to a torrential downpour! We stayed in Nassau for the night and will be flying out to San Salvador this afternoon. For the next 11 days we will be studying tropical marine ecology at the Gerace Research Station on the island. [...]

My name is Shanna Armbrust and I am one of the seniors in the interior design program who is studying abroad in Aix en Provence, France.  This experience so far has been so incredible that it’s almost unrealistic. Every morning I wake up and think to myself “Where the heck am I? Is this real [...]

Attending a trip for the Marchutz School of Art, I had an ideal day visiting the village of Bonnieux, hiking through Lacoste to Les Bories and touring the Abbey of Senanque. It was a “back to nature” experience where we studied natural architecture and foliage viewed from an artistic standpoint. We began our day touring [...]

Hi! My name is Dorrie Brennick and I am a senior in the Interior Design program at UNH, and I’m spending my semester at IAU in Aix en Provence, France. We live with host families here in Aix, which was one of my biggest worries coming here –along with not knowing any French– but, my [...]

  Back row (from left) Lindsey Knapp, Erika Roberts, Rebecca Kollmann, Deanna Barba. Front row (from left) Dorrie Brennick, Chelsea Minella, Shanna Armbrust, Amanda Salamone Today, the Interior Design Aix-en-Provence cohort began their Interior Design Studio course in a building that dates back to the Medieval era which was recently updated with wifi, a laser printer, [...]

  The students have arrived! After an initial open house and orientation at the IAU, the 8 Interior Design students are settling in with their host families and house mates, acclimating to the Provencal culture, and exploring Aix-en-Provence on foot. A charming and historically significant city, Aix was founded by the Romans on top of a natural [...]

Last Saturday, Shaunna and I went to Maui for the day to collect Cladophora specimens. It might seem crazy to go to Maui just for the day, but when you’re only about a half-hour plane ride away, and you need to keep your specimens alive for experiments, a day tip (and a long one at [...]

I returned to Hawaii this past Thursday – the breezy trade winds were a welcome relief from the scorching temperatures of the east coast! Who knew you’d have to go to the tropics for a break from the heat?   Shaunna has been working very hard while I was gone for my meetings on the [...]

As Shaunna mentioned in our last blog post, I had to head back to the mainland for a while, first for a teaching workshop and then for the annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America (PSA). This is a great meeting for learning about the latest in algae research (phycology = the study of [...]

This past week Shaunna and I spent a lot of time setting up out first experiment to test the salinity tolerance of Cladophora sp…this is much easier said than done! Science involves a lot of tinkering sometimes. Shaunna writes more about it in this week’s blog post: I am nearing the end of my second [...]