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A healthy future for wildlife, people, and planet.

A person wearing blue gloves is focusing on a tan gerbil as they perform a blood draw from its tail.
Planetary Health The Student Experience
Kruger National Park
Organization for Tropical Studies
Cornell Expanding Horizons
Parasite
South Africa
Skukuza Science Learning Initiative
Fieldwork
microscopic
mice
Hemoparasites
Bird
Bird Host
Zoonotic Disease
One Health
Disease Transmission
Snail
Parasitology
Freshwater
Disease Ecology
Host Ecology
Molecular Diagnostics
DNA
DNA Samples
PCR
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Student Experience
Veterinary Student
Foot and Mouth Disease
Ecosystem
Hands-on Experience
Infectious Disease Modeling
Pathogen
dehorning

Parasites, Preservation, and PCRs: A Wild Summer in the South African Bush

October 15, 2025
I had the opportunity to spend two months in the middle of Kruger National Park (KNP) in collaboration with the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)...
Student helping to track penguin feeding time
Aquatic Animal Health The Student Experience
Externship
Veterinary Externship
Cape Gannet
African Penguin
Seabird Conservation
Cornell Expanding Horizons
Expanding Horizons International Education Program
Wildlife Conservation Medicine
Endangered Species
Wildlife Release
Wildlife Rehabilitation
Aquatic Animal Health
Aquatic Animal Medicine
Harlaub’s Gulls
South Africa
Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds

As Far as the Eye Can Sea: Clinical Interventions for Threatened Seabird Species in Southern Africa

February 20, 2025
Since deciding to pursue veterinary medicine, I have been interested in conservation medicine, with a focus on improving the health of wildlife populations. More recently, my interest has expanded to aquatic medicine...