Exploring the Olympic Peninsula has been a Boling Family tradition since 2011. The whole reason I chose to conduct research in the Olympics has based on all the trips I took with my family over the course of the last decade. I am grateful for every moment I have with my kids romping around the temperate rainforest.

Quinault Rainforest, Olympic National Park, Washington State, U.S.A (Melanie Boling, Imagery Beyond Borders, 2021).

Melanie Boling, Extreme Environments Behavioural Ecologist, Peer Wild in the Quinault Rainforest, Olympic National Park, Washington State, U.S.A (Melanie Boling, Imagery Beyond Borders, 2021).

Autumn in the Quinault Rainforest, Olympic National Park, Washington State, U.S.A (Melanie Boling, Imagery Beyond Borders, 2021).

Boling Family traditions, est. 2013. Quinault Rainforest, Olympic National Park, Washington State, U.S.A (Melanie Boling, Imagery Beyond Borders, 2021).

About the author:

“Boling's research is part of her Graduate Studies at Harvard University where she examines "extreme environments" and how they can have potential negative impacts on humans operating in the extreme environment. Implementing "psychological field kits" are a way of mitigating negative variables such as abnormal human behavior and abnormal human psychology that can play a role in team degradation.”

Melanie Boling, Extreme Environments Behavioural Ecologist, Peer Wild; and Neuropsychology Graduate Student, Harvard University.