Patagonia

By Anna Robert of Westminster College Patagonia Student Program – Fall 2019 Semester It’s 8 AM right now in Coyhaique and the rest of team Cogiue is slowly waking up, shuffling their belongings into their packs with sleepy eyelids. Somewhere…

By Rowan Henke of University of Vermont After research trips to Lago Jeinimeni and Valle Chacabuco, we rounded out our tour of Patagonia National Park in the Tamango sector for our final research expedition. We came to survey the park…

By Zachary Boone of Colby College On September 23, 2019 I left the comfort of my home in Greenwich, Connecticut and boarded a plane to Santiago, Chile to begin an adventure with eight complete strangers. In the Santiago airport I met…

By Maya Hilty of Carleton College Hello from Cochrane, our beloved base camp for this semester! Over the past week, we completed our last research excursion surveying the population of huemul in Tamango Reserve. Tamango is a protected area only…

By Grace Leslie of Carleton College This week was particularly special as we headed off for our homestays! We were split into groups of two or three and sent to various homes in and around Cochrane. My group was composed…