As Bob Dylan said, “You do what you do because you do it well.” What Round River Conservation Studies does, and does better than anyone, is teach ecological literacy, and a reverence for the Other.

I graduated from UVM in May 2026 with a B.S. in Environmental Science. I am currently doing wildland firefighting in Kootenai National Forest with the U.S. Forest Service.

I can’t believe it has been over 7 years since my semester with Round River in Patagonia! Thinking back to that spring semester my junior year of undergrad, I never could have been convinced that in Fall 2026, I would be a new student (again) starting a PhD program at Stanford University.

I had the privilege of returning to the Darhad Valley this summer as a UC Davis Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Scholar, given the funding to pursue my independent research in collaboration with Round River, the National University of Mongolia (NUM), and the Zerbe Lab at UC Davis.

Since leaving the US in 2010, my path has been a global one, taking me to five countries across three continents...

Congratulations to Mariam Adegoke, Taku ‘25, on presenting her student research at the Colby College Liberal Arts Symposium (CLAS)! The research Mariam presented arose from the fieldwork she conducted during the Taku program in the summer of 2025...