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…
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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…
by Katie Adase, of West Virginia University 6:30am: the stars were still bright as Team Chucao tore down our tents at Camping Aquasol for the last time. Though we embraced our friends in Cochrane for the final guaranteed time, the energy…
by Conor Larkin, Colby College (photos by Adam Spencer) Our time in BNP El Mosco Reserve can only be described in two words: quite remarkable. I kid, I kid, not only due to the fact that quite remains to this…
by Siena Wiedmann, of Bowdoin College Like true adventurers, we trekked across the worn boardwalk through the small, colorful town of Caleta Tortel, feeling like the wooden panels might collapse beneath the weight of our heavy backpacks. We had spent…
by Sophie Karolczak, of Wesleyan University Both teams just returned from spending the last eight days in Patagonia National Park performing censuses on guanaco and Ñandú (Darwin’s Rhea). The Patagonia National Park includes the Tamango Reserve, the Jeinimeini Reserve, and…
by Baillie Stein, of Colby College Midday on February 20th, I was sitting in the back of Blue Luv: our big, blue, well-worn, rugged Chevy SUV with “Round River Conservation Studies” emblazoned on either door. We were bringing up the…
By Johannah Frisby, College of Saint Benedict’s On Wednesday October 10th, Round River and 30 students from Cochrane’s elementary school took a day-long field trip to visit our neighboring glacier. Neither group had been to the Cayuqueo Glacier before and…
For three years, Round River student teams have attempted to complete a biodiversity survey of the upper Pascua River watershed from Lago Quetru to Lago O’Higgins, a wild area recently threatened with heavy development. After ten days in the field…