By Cece Wheeler, Middlebury College Hello again! After a day of rest and smoothies in Puerto Jimenez, we’ve been back at Piro Biological Station this week, enjoying our last few days of field work with butterflies before launching into our…
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By Cece Wheeler, Middlebury College Hello again! After a day of rest and smoothies in Puerto Jimenez, we’ve been back at Piro Biological Station this week, enjoying our last few days of field work with butterflies before launching into our…
By Cece Wheeler, Middlebury College Hey everyone! We’ve had an action packed week at Lomas del Sierpe, full of pungent aromas, early mornings, and some pretty amazing bird sightings. After spending Sunday working with dung beetles (see Jori’s blog for…
By Jori McCune, Westminster College Hi all! The Costa Rican life has been treating us well with everything from friendly faces to the most amazing fruit, however, I would not say that we have been operating on “Tico time.” We…
By Avery Driscoll, Westminster College Greetings from the Piro Station! We’ve spent the last week and a half here surveying for Neotropical River Otters along seven nearby rivers. Besides the work of the Round River crew over the previous two semesters, little research has been done on the Neotropical…
Luke collects data for his field project on the habitat preferences of the Neotropical river otter. Photo by Shalynn Pack. By Luke Golden, Westminster College It really hit me that I had arrived in Costa Rica as I walked…