Tasmania Research Travelog 2018

Tasmania Australia Field Work 2018

East Coast- water lessons

Friday I headed to the east coast. I had a morning interview with a local council member, who had farmed grapevines in the area in the pa...

Way down south to Ida Bay

Thursday I had a free day with no interviews scheduled, so I decided to take a drive to an area I hadn't explored yet on the island... th...

Coal River Valley take 2

Yesterday I got to meet and interview a soil scientist in the Coal River Valley. He had also been a farmer for much of his life (sheep). ...

Huon Valley Weekend

Over the weekend, I headed south to the Huon Valley. It is an agricultural area known for fruit orchards and vineyards. I went on a bush w...

Friday fun day

Ok, actually today was full of interviews and meetings, but it was really fun! I headed down to the harbor to conduct an interview with a...

Midlands and Coal River Valley

Yesterday I landed an interview with a viticulturist I've been trying to connect with for years. He's based in Victoria, but manages mul...

Royal Hobart Show

Last week was a state holiday for the annual Royal Hobart Show. It fell on a Thursday, so everyone also took Friday off, which made it di...

kunanyi/Mount Wellington

kunanyi is the indigenous name for one of the most prominent landscape features in Hobart (the colonizers named it Mount Wellington). I d...

Hobart scenes

A number of days of my field work is filled with interviewing people in government agencies dealing with water, climate change and agricu...

Derwent Valley and Mount Field National Park

The Derwent Valley is northwest of Hobart and is home to a small number of wineries some of which are well known. I stopped by one, and t...

Ramping up

The past few days have been busy with interview scheduling and coordination. Lots of time dedicating to networking and email outreach. Tw...

Walking the Rivulet

Today is Sunday, and other than computer work setting up and preparing for interviews, I decided to head out on a long walk to learn abou...

Tasmania -bound

I am traveling to Hobart to begin my Tasmania portion of my dissertation research. It's a long trip- PDX-LAX-SYD-HOB. Takes over a day to...

Arriving in Hobart

I'm settling in to my apartment for the next month. I totally lucked out and rented an upstairs apartment in West Hobart from a kind and ...

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