Category: Costa Rica
Time is a Mystery
Hiking through the trunk of a tree! Orr Uzan-Tidhar College of the Atlantic Tropical Biology- Summer 2023 This is Orr Uzan-Tidhar, writing to you from the depths of a Costa Rican rainforest (I'm actually typing this up on my laptop in my comfortable bed). Time truly feels elusive here. We're...
An Experience That Marked My Soul
Darilis Martinez-Torres University of Puerto Rico -Mayaguez Tropical Biology in Costa Rica - Summer 2022 Exploring the Palo Verde Wetlands The tropical biology course allowed me to develop in many different areas, both academically and personally. I was able to learn a lot about myself during the past month and...
Birding and Learning
Martin Stoner Macalaster College Tropical Biology in Costa Rica - Summer 2022 Spreading my wings! I arrived in San Jose with no idea of what to expect. Of course, I knew what the course was "supposed" to be like, but I really did not know what was in store for...
Three Stations in 30 Days
Arlene Polar Purdue University Tropical Biology in Costa Rica - Summer 2022 Here I am, making friends with a horse grasshopper I would like to say that this has been the best experience I have gone through. The Organization for Tropical Studies has given me the opportunity to make memories,...
A Whole New World
Dr. Lisa Nupen OTS Resident Lecturer Here I am on the Stone Bridge at the La Selva field station. The unique plants and animals that occur in the new world Neotropics makes this an exceptionally exciting and special place for a biologist to visit – especially one like myself, who...
There’s No Place Like Palo Verde
Ella Zhao Emory University Tropical Biology in Costa Rica - Summer 2019 That's me on the far left trying to stay warm in the high altitude of the Páramo Palo Verde, light of my life, fire of my mind. My agony, my ecstasy (not the drug). Pa-loh-vur-dey: the tip of...
Unforgettable Experience in Costa Rica
Sarah Sampson Colgate University Tropical Diseases, Environmental Change, & Human Health in Costa Rica - Fall 2017 Here I am taking in the rainforest on a trail at La Sevla Biological Station. This past semester in Costa Rica was an unforgettable experience. From being in a new environment andbeing immersed...
Diversity on Display
Dennis Bolshakov College of Wooster Tropical Biology on a Changing Planet in Costa Rica - Fall 2017 Here I am taking in the views of the rainforest from a canopy tower. I am a biology major from The College of Wooster in Ohio, United States, and I am currently with...
First Impressions Of Costa Rica
Mikayla Kifer Bowdoin College Tropical Biology on a Changing Planet in Costa Rica - Fall 2017 My classmate, Tyus getting up close and personal to a tarantula. For most people, travelling is a way to explore differences. We like to contrast our “normal,” boring lives with something foreign and exciting; the...
Looking Back on Costa Rica
Ryan Davis Grinnell College Tropical Biology on a Changing Planet in Costa Rica, Fall 2014 I have few experiences that I look back upon with such fondness and joy as my semester abroad with the OTS Tropical Biology program in Costa Rica. That's me in front of the many volcanoes...