Callie Ficek (author) standing in front of an Ajo tree estimated to be 500 years old (Photo by Lara Bogdanovich) A day-by-day blog by Callie Ficek (University of New Hampshire) 6/28/16 Today was an early morning. We woke up…
by Kenna Hill (Weber State University) Buenos Dias!! Hola, my name is Kenna, I am a senior at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah studying Botany and Environmental Studies. I am one of the first students to study in Costa…
By Kiley Haberman (University of Vermont) Scorpions are among the earliest forms of land animal, and their basic body plan has remained relatively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. The earliest known fossil scorpions date back 425 to…
By Kiley Haberman (University of Vermont) We were camping at the Island Safari Lodge in Maun, Botswana for a few days to prepare for our next few campsites in NG 41 in Mababe. We had a free day to catch…
By Gabriel Feinman-Riordan (College of the Atlantic) As child I was very aware of the things that went ‘bump’ in the night. There was the boogeyman in my bedroom closet, the spooky owl outside my window, and the giant dinosaur…