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| Ready for adventure in Alajuela |
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| Hiking in Mastatal |
Off to a good start to our month-long Neotropical field ecology course in Costa Rica! Participating in this year's course are ten students from both the Tacoma and the Seattle campuses; after several days in the highlands in the coffee-growing area of Tarrazu, we are now settled in the farming community of Mastatal, nestled in the rainforest below La Cangreja National Park on the Pacific slope. Students are hard at work on their independent research projects - this year they include studies on frog/toad, spider, and ant diversity, water quality assays of local rivers, and the anti-microbial properties of leaf-cutting ants. We are spending a few weeks here before heading to the coast and then further south to the Osa peninsula, after which we'll spend our final week in late February here wrapping up research projects and giving presentations on results. More updates to follow!
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| Tour of CoopeDota coffee mill |
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| Preparing for tree planting, Los Altos de Copey de Dota |
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| At the "lab", Rancho Mastatal |
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| Rancho Mastatal |
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| Blue-crowsned motmot |
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