Student and Associate

Timur Andronov rests in a hammock mounted in a giant sequoia tree after making the 250-foot climb to reach the tree's canopy on Saturday, Sep. 27, 2025 in Whitaker Forest, Calif.   Andronov was participating in Adventure Outings' Giant Sequoia Tree Climbing trip, which taught students how to use technical climbing gear to safely ascend, descend, and move between ropes attached throughout the trees.

Kat Lohbeck rests in a hammock hanging 250 feet above the ground in the canopy of a giant sequoia tree on Sunday, Sep. 28, 2025 in Whitaker Forest, Calif.   Lohbeck, a student trip leader for Adventure Outings (AO), was leading AO's Giant Sequoia Tree Climbing trip, which taught students how to use technical climbing gear to safely ascend, descend, and move between ropes attached throughout the trees.

Kat Lohbeck is illuminated by a flashlight in this long exposure as she begins a pre-dawn climb 250 feet into the canopy of a giant sequoia tree on Sunday, Sep. 28, 2025 in Whitaker Forest, Calif.   Lohbeck, a student trip leader for Adventure Outings (AO), was leading AO's Giant Sequoia Tree Climbing trip, which taught students how to use technical climbing gear to safely ascend, descend, and move between ropes attached throughout the trees.

The president of the backpacking club on campus walks beneath a colorful evening sky, bringing a day on the trail to a quiet close.

On an unseasonably warm February day, student firefighters conduct a controlled burn during a fire ecology exercise. Heat distortion warps the air, blurring the figure on the fireline as flames move through the burn plot.

During peak controlled burn season, a land steward advances the fireline at night, guiding the spread of a prescribed burn under intense firelight and smoke.

Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest, researchers conduct a biodiversity survey of arthropods in leaf litter within a remote field station. 

This photo was taken using a makeshift set up on location, resting the Petri dish on copy paper suspended in the air by stacks of textbooks and backlit by a headlamp on a red light setting.

A student arranges ant specimens by size for microscopic examination, using forceps to prepare samples for species identification within an ongoing biodiversity collection.

The president of a campus recycling club lies among mounds of sorted recyclable materials, highlighting the scale of student-led waste reduction efforts and campus sustainability initiatives.

Stephens Hall at Towson University.