Carmen M Alex

August 23, 2020

Viento Azul: Sailing Home After the Long Summer

Friday, August 21; Christmas Cove, Greater St James, USVI This is it. This is goodbye, I thought at 5:30 am. The sun hadn’t come…

Image of Christmas Cove and cyclone Isaias track

July 28, 2020

Sailing Viento Azul: Isaias coming

Soon-to-be-named cyclone Isaias has been a tricky fellow, quietly drifting off the west coast of Africa, hiding under a layer of African dust, and…

NASA astronaut image of ISS and milky way

July 25, 2020

From Beginning to End

Look! Up! Up there in the night sky over St John! See the Milky Way? Spanning across the firmament, like a heavenly bridge, from…

July 22, 2020

Island of the Green Sea Turtles

Ancient reptiles, ocean dwellers, air-breathers, survivors… so many things describe sea turtles but none can capture the magic of meeting one in person. Or…

April 10, 2020

COVID-19: What the numbers (don’t) tell us

The globally reported COVID-19 data[1], published online by the medical journal The Lancet on Feb 19, 2020, tells part of the story of this…

image of coronavirus emerging from cells

March 21, 2020

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August 28, 2019

How to Tame a Stingray

This post could have been titled in many ways, such as “Don’t try this at home” or “How to train your pet Stingray” or…

June 7, 2019

Sailing Viento Azul: Scout trips in the Sea of Abaco

On Saturday, May 25th, Scout Troop 686 arrived from Littleton, Colorado to experience a week of high adventure on our catamaran. The first couple…

June 6, 2019

Sailing Viento Azul: from Islamorada to the Sea of Abaco

We’d been sailing Viento Azul for only sixteen days but it felt like a month or longer. I’d nearly forgotten about our topside home…

February 12, 2019

Let’s maybe call it what it is: The Anthropocene

A week ago, I received an email from Prof. Sklair, a researcher from the UK, asking me if my website GREENDEX.ORG is using the…

February 2, 2019

“Save the Dells” Hike

Our colloquium hike took us on the Constellation Trail. Please follow and like us:

January 1, 2019

About 2018

Another year that flew by. And again, I’m prefacing my sentences with “I can’t believe it’s …” (Fill in the year.) The things I…

There Goes Gravity

Author: Carmen Alex