DANTA is delighted to announce a new course offering for summer 2017! Birds of Costa Rica will be held from July 15-July 30, 2017 at Osa Conservation‘s Piro Research Station in Costa Rica’s spectacular Osa peninsula. As the one of the largest tracts of rain forest north of the Amazon (roughly 400,000 acres in the Osa Conservation Area), it is renowned for high
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Although I love research, I’ve realized that my real passion lies in getting folks engaged with a project or an idea–we can’t continue to publish studies in a scientific vacuum and assume that the world will change.
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Every week there is something new to do! Some of my favorite moments have taken place early in the morning when the research technicians and I check the live traps we baited the previous evening.
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By Lisa Barrett You’ve previously read about my visit to Sri Lanka and my project with zebra finches in grad school at the University of Wyoming. This summer I conducted research with elephants at the San Diego Zoo as part of my Ph.D. dissertation with invaluable help from a UW Biodiversity Institute grant. Phase one of my research at the
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Wildlife Conservation and Sustainability Dates: August 2-17, 2017 Program fee: $2500 Application deadline: June 1, 2017 Location: Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica Sponsoring Organization: DANTA: Association for Conservation of the Tropics in collaboration with Osa Conservation and Planet Conservation Course Description The proximate and ultimate causes of declines of rain forest habitats and biodiversity will be examined through a combination of direct observations
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By Lisa Barrett My recent trip to Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve and the Galápagos Islands with University of Wyoming students and professors was nothing short of magical. Since you already know why the Galápagos Islands are so interesting, you should not be surprised! A New Species The first stop on our two-week trip was to a cloud forest reserve near Mindo
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…to be in the place where Darwin first made these notes would be monumental (as a scientist) and magnificent (as a citizen of the world)!
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I had the pleasure of conducting my research at Piro Biological Station in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. I was there to look at foraging ecology in howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata), specifically I was trying to see if they deplete preferred patches of food. At this field site there are four species of primates: Central American Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri oerstedii)
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Okay, so this is a bit of a personal post. I realized in my most recent trip to Costa Rica that the friendships formed in the field have all lasted. So, it really got me thinking about why. Let me first explain what the field is like for me. In both locations that I’ve done fieldwork (Panama and Costa Rica),
Read moreBy Lisa Barrett I recently took a short trip to Sri Lanka to scope out a potential field site: Uda Walawe National Park. I got to see some pretty amazing animals while I was there. Below are the highlights, in no particular order. Photos by: Lisa Barrett
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