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...

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......

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)....

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...