by Sophia Merriweather of Colby College The huemul (Hippocamelus bisculus) is a deer endemic to southern Chile and Argentina that holds great cultural significance to the Chilean people. It is featured on the Chilean coat of arms along with the…
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by Sophia Merriweather of Colby College The huemul (Hippocamelus bisculus) is a deer endemic to southern Chile and Argentina that holds great cultural significance to the Chilean people. It is featured on the Chilean coat of arms along with the…
by Caroline Killian of Trinity College Check out Caroline’s video blog on the group’s time in the Chacabuco Valley!
2/7/22 – 2/14/22 by Jack Grabinski of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University Nestled along the border between Chile and Argentina, La Ruta de los Pioneros is a historic horse trail that was used by pioneers…
by McQuillen Martinez of Colby College I arrived at Boston Logan Airport about three and a half hours early for my flight to JFK from where I would board my connecting flight to Santiago, Chile. I have not done…
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…
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 Julia Selle, of the University of Vermont Last week, Team Tero headed out on another research trip, this time to the Bien Nacional Protegido (BNP, National Protected Good) Río Mosco, walking from Villa O’Higgins and right next to the…
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…
by Maegan Aldous, University of Vermont For the past five days, the ten of us students have been living on the campo (farm in Spanish) for our homestays, completely immersed in the gaucho culture and practicing our Spanish. We had a…
by Ella Mighell, University of Vermont Puerto Eden – remote and isolated might be word associations for a traveler who spends half an hour walking the limited boardwalks of Isla Wellington as the ferry unloads barrels of petroleum, rolls of building…
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…
Written by Paul Karpinski, Northland College Photos by Adam Spencer After tracking huemules, seeing glaciers and learning a plethora of new plants and birds in the alpine glacier valleys surrounding Lago O’Higgins, we had the privilege of visiting Tortel, home…