Written by Harrison Buck (Westminster College) Life is good here in Khwai. The days seem to fly by as we continue our morning transects, wrap up class lectures, and begin final exams! While we aren’t occupied with academics, time…
By Caitlin Luby, College of St. Benedict’s (Team Condor) The past few months have felt like some sort of dream and I’m just waiting for someone to pinch me to wake me up. This trip to Berndardo O’Higgins National Park…
By Hannah Weiss, University of Vermont Photos by Adam Spencer The sphagnum (Sphagnum magellanicum)-dominated bog (>3km by >3km) we explored existed in a depression in the landscape, likely an old river floodplain of the Vargas River that flows east to west…
By Maggie Johnson, Oberlin College (Team Condor) In the last week of February, the students of Team Condor spent their first 72 hours apart in over 40 days. We split into pairs and set off to live a few days…
Written by Stacie Wright (University of Vermont) For the past two weeks we’ve been in Mababe conducting herbivore monitoring. Every day students would go on driving transects and collect data. We mostly saw elephants, giraffe, zebra and antelope on…