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By Meg Hall of University of Vermont As Gabe and I drove across Chacabuco Valley for a guanaco transect, he spotted many birds; from Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) to juvenile black-chested buzzard eagles (Geranoaetus melanoleucus). He pulled the truck over…
By Kira Warm Lonsdale of Sarah Lawrence College After a day of driving, unpacking and setting up camp, we spent our first full day learning how to do transects. The instructors took us out to a flat area of the…
By Laura Schelling of University of Vermont Our journey began on the sunny morning of March 11, when Max, Seth, Anna, and I, along with our two instructors, Diana and Gabe, packed up from base camp and prepared to head…
By Meg Hall of University of Vermont Our time at base camp in Cochrane was always madness with needing to accomplish a million things in just a few days. After coming back from our homestays, we had an opportunity to…
By William Seligmann of University of Vermont A fire blazes outside our quincho, bringing a yellow-orange glow to our somber faces. We each sit on a stump, destined to be firewood, or a fancy camp chair that we are…