Hannah Phelps, Middlebury College January 31st – February 18 Along with learning all about the Patagón culture and ecotourism, Team Condor also went on two backpacking trips during our three-week stay in Río Turbio. On the first trip, we spent…
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…
By Tilly Ingall, University of Vermont Written February 24, 2017 Our second stint out in the bush has seen our full immersion into field research. While Hank and Ben continue their project, interviewing people within the Herero community, the…
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…