Next destination: Costa Rica

I'm back in Seattle for a few weeks before I head off to Costa Rica. I'll be taking the Organization for Tropical Studies course for graduate students on Tropical Ecology. It's an 8-week course during which we travel to 6 field stations across the country. We'll do short (1-2 day) projects in small groups at each station, plus two larger independent projects. I'm excited to see the country and to get some experience setting up field projects. Hopefully I'll get to practice a few of the techniques I'm aiming to use for my project in the Marianas this summer.

Here's the website for the course: http://www.ots.duke.edu/en/education/ots-1.shtml

I'll have some email access while in Costa Rica, so there's a chance I'll be able to update the blog now and then.

That's all for now.

Haldre