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by Christof Zweifel, of Carleton College We spent the past week camping in Valle Chacabuco; surveying the guanaco population, critiquing neoliberalism, and learning about the steppe ecosystem. After eons as a home to the Aonikenk, then a few decades of…
by Sophia Gillies, of University of Vermont Team Coigüe’s, Week 1 After a long day of travel, we all filed off of the plane eyeing each other, the other fellow gringos we would be sharing the semester of adventures with….
by Stacy Polykova, of University of Maryland As I write this final blog post, the Austral Fall approaches and soon we will escape the cold of incoming winter and head back to the spring of the Northern Hemisphere. Our time…
Bernardo O’Higgins National Park (BNP) is the largest in Chile, protecting the vast Southern Patagonian Icefield and the expansive fjords and temperate rainforest ecosystems to its west. The park protects the some of the last great refugia of the Huemul,…
by Matt Mitchell, of Iowa State University Being part of the ‘plant team,’ I arrived two days early to take inventory of plants that we would later encounter. Throughout our travels in Bernardo O’Higgins National Park, it was the plant team’s…