Greg Asner
A scientist who studies the relationships between the living and
nonliving parts of the tropical environment.
Non Forest Service
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My favorite science experience occurred in 2009 when my team and I climbed upward from the Amazon forests into the Andes mountains in Peru. After we made it to the mountain summit, we could look back, eastward, and see thousands of lightning strikes in the storms that normally occur over the Amazon forest. It made me think of standing on the summit of Mauna Loa in Hawai‘i, looking down on the incredible Hawaiian rainforests that still exist high above where people live along the coast.
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