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Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Birds, Bugs, and Binoculars

Written by Max Beal, Northland College After catching a ride in a cattle truck from Rincon, we unloaded our things and settled into our new home at Osa Conservation’s Lomas del Sierpe station. The station sits just off the road…

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Getting Our Boots Wet

Written by Carolina May (College of William and Mary)   After returning from our backpacking trip to Cerro Arbolito, we spent the afternoon writing up Grinnell journal entries that described all of the species and ecological observations we noticed on…

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Welcome to Costa Rica

By Katie Goodwin, University of New Hampshire   The semester is getting under way here in Costa Rica! It has been about a week and a half since we got here but I think we all agree that our campsite…

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Corcovado National Park

by Lara Bogdanovich (University of Vermont)   I have been given the daunting task of writing a summation of the Round River experience and with all my heart I will try tell our tale. After six weeks on the most…

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The lost city of Cerro Arbolito

  By Ross Kamimoto (Western Washington University)   Hello everyone! This trip so far has been amazing, so much in fact that it’s been really hard for me to prioritize school work and assigned readings when there’s so much to…