Tuesday marks the first day that I have ever collected my own data for a field research project. Years of research papers and reading research studies has given me some idea of the fundamentals of systematic data collection, but nothing compares to the real world experience my research partner Miyako and I conducted this past… Read more »

This week was the very first time I was able to leave my unfortunate home country of the US. For this reason, there were so many new things for me to see for the first time upon my arrival to Costa Rica. Within these novel things were seeing the major cultural, technological, and ecological differences…. Read more »