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Choosing a rolling home

by Janet Liu, Laura Cabanzo and Nicole Martinez An introduction to how the roll leaf beetle use Zingiberales (gingers) and other exotic...

Eco Services at Last Cruces

by Sarah Groendyk, Brenna Kays and Claudia Garnica Forests provide valuable irreplaceable services for people around the world. Video...

Camouflage

by William Thomas, Mareli Sanchez and Rieka Yu The white witch moth (Thysania agrippina) uses its environment as a disguise. Video...

Costa Rica: sensations outside the laboratory!

by Laura Cabanzo-Olarte The plane is landing and seeing through the window of the plane I see mountains and windmills in the middle of...

Diversity at its Finest

by Nicole Martínez-Llaurador I have to say I was incredibly nervous to start the course. It was the English version of it, even though I...

Blue jeans frogs: did they enjoy the rain?

Written, narrated, and produced by Laura Cabanzo and Claudia Garnica, July 2019, La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Almost all ...

Eyes and mind opened on the other side of the world

by Janet Liu About 20 days prior to this course, the original excitement about spending 6-weeks in Costa Rica started to be overwritten...

Small body big impact!

Written, narrated, and produced by Nicole Martínez-Llaurador, Rieka Yu, and Sarah Groendyk, July 2019, La Selva Biological Station, Costa...

Why do leaf cutting ants give free rides?

Written, narrated, and produced by Brenna Kays and Janet Liu, July 2019, La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica The ants are La Selva...

Cuericí, a paradise up in the mountains

by Claudia Garnica The first moment you got out of the bus you realized that you were standing on the top of the mountain and that the...

comfort in Costa Rican food made with love

by Rieka Yu One of the greatest things about going to all the research stations we visited around Costa Rica is the love put into making...

when dimensions found in books are simply not enough

by Mareli Sanchez-Julia At some point in ones life as an ecologist, be it as a 10 year-old with nerdy, over-achieving parents, or as a...

There is no harm in dreaming

by Dr. Esteban Suárez, Professor, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador The contrast was so brutal that I wanted to leave the room...

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