Written by Julie Hamilton (University of New Hampshire) Team Aguila On February 12, we left our field house in Cochrane to head east for the iconic Chacabuco Valley of Patagonia to conduct surveys on the threatened and native, Ñandú (Rhea pennata…
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…
by Allison Mullen, University of Vermont January 30-February 7 Team Condor For three weeks, Team Condor lived on a campo rented by a Patagón named Marcelo. To get there we drove eight hours south from Cochrane, left the cars at a…
Written by Allison Summerly (University of Vermont) 17 February, 2017 Team Aguila On February 3rd Team Aguila travelled southwest from our base camp in Cochrane to a campo (a farm) in the lower Pascua River Valley. This valley is…
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Getting Down to Business in Xai Xai
By Mary Sellars (Northland College) February 18, 2017 Dumela from Xai Xai! We’ve arrived at our second field camp after a seven hour journey from Maun. Xai Xai is situated near the Botswanan/Namibian border and everyone has been excited…