This week was a big travel week so we were crisscrossing all over Costa Rica. We started off the week at Tortuguero, headed to La Fortuna, bussed to Palo Verde, and finished the week off in beautiful Monteverde. This week taught me the importance of Dramamine. We were also rapid-fire exposed to wildly different ways… Read more »

This week was research week! Our goal for the research is to investigate a possible correlation between bird abundance and the abundance of an invasive plant, the pink banana. Marin and I set out our study across four days. Every morning we would be on a new trail in a different part of the forest…. Read more »

From the very beginning of this trip, the moment I landed at San Jose Airport, I was overwhelmed in the best way. It was my first time traveling internationally and I had been pretty much on autopilot for the morning. It all struck me when I looked out the window at the airport. The green,… Read more »