It’s been a hurried couple of weeks in Paris with lots of work on writing and slowly getting acquainted with working and living in a new country. Just as I was starting to find my way around the neighborhood though it’s time to head back into the field.
This time last year I was on the island of Redonda to survey the endemic lizards in tandem with a group working to eradicate the invasive rats menacing the islands’ fauna and flora. The eradication was a success, and now I’m heading back out to the island to see how things have changed. I’ll be catching and measuring lizards again, taking pictures of the vegetation, and looking to see what immediate differences removing these pests can have. I’m excited to see the changes and I’ll be posting updates as soon as I get off the island. For now though I’m at a run trying to get final supplies because we won’t have access to anything we haven’t brought with us for the next week!
Until I get back though, here’s a recent story in the Boston Globe about the lizards I’m working on at Harvard.
Colin Donihue 
Globe article is tiny and worthless, but I’ll catch up with you when we get back from China. Good Luck & Best Wishes, Skip & Wenhua
Thanks Skip! Looking forward to updating you. The folks I’m talking with here say Redonda’s changed a lot! Safe travels to China.