Earthwatch is an international nonprofit organization that places paying volunteers (or student/teacher grant award winners) of all ages on short-term research expeditions all over the world. As an Earthwatch volunteer, you can explore some of the most unusual places, like Belize, Estonia and Mongolia where you might excavate a million-year-old elephant fossil, comb tropical streams for calling frogs or track radio-collared pumas.

Each Earthwatch project sends you on an important, life-changing adventure where you’ll make friends from around the world and help conditions here on planet Earth.

Lori’s Earthwatch Experiences:

Traveling, adventure and environmentalism are some of Lori’s passions. As an Earthwatch volunteer, she’s experienced many once-in-a-lifetime events. So far, Lori has traveled down a river by boat for three days to live with Chamacoco Indians in Paraguay. At the Karcha Balut village, she learned to weave baskets from palm leaves. Lori taught in the one-room schoolhouse for a day. She also photographed special cultural ceremonies to help promote the new Chamacocco heritage museum.