Extra Dimension of Learning
Name: Nikola Alexandre School: Vassar College Major: Environmental Studies Program: Tropical Island Biodiversity & Conservation Studies, Panama Classes are done. Grades are in. Our regular schedules are over. One week into Directed Research, and everyone is already heavily immersed in their projects. We split our initial group into three smaller ones, lining up to work [...]
Socioeconomic Research in Panama
Name: Nathan Freedman School: University of Connecticut Major: Engineering Program: Tropical Island Biodiversity & Conservation Studies, Panama This past week marked the start of our Directed Research projects, one of which entails a socioeconomic study on human-environment interactions of two indigenous Ngöbe populations in Bocas del Toro—one here on Isla Solarte, and the other in [...]
Final Impressions of SFS Panama
Name: Alexandra Doumas School: Western Washington University Major: Environmental Studies Program: Tropical Island Biodiversity & Conservation Studies, Panama What did you like most about the SFS experience? Time spent out in the field was definitely my favorite. My Directed Research group did our data collection over on Isla Bastimentos, and spending every day in that [...]
Boquete: The Cloudforest, Ecotourism, and Coffee
Name: Lindsay Powell School: Point Loma Nazarene University Major: Environmental Science Program: Tropical Island Biodiversity & Conservation Studies, Panama Last week we had the privilege of changing up our current island scene and spending a week in the lush Chiriqui province of Western Panama. We began our week with a 5 hour trek through Almirante [...]
Forests, Beaches, and Reefs: A Photo Tour of Panama
Name: Ellen Reid Position: Admissions Manager Location: SFS Headquarters An SFS staff team representing academics, admissions, and research visited Panama last month to advance development of the Tropical Island Biodiversity and Conservation Studies pilot program launching this fall and spring in Bocas del Toro. Ellen Reid’s photographs from the trip give us a glimpse [...]
Panama’s Richness
Name: Jose Edgardo Arevalo Hernandez, Ph.D. Position: Lecturer in Tropical Ecology Program: Sustainable Development Studies, Costa Rica The intense downpours that had persisted for several days in most of the Central American isthmus accompanied us during our last field trip in Costa Rica. The small community of El Sur, located in the central pacific of [...]
Greetings from Costa Rica!
Name: Will Thompson School: Saint Michael’s College Major: Environmental Studies Program: Sustainable Development Studies, Costa Rica Greetings from Costa Rica! It has been a wonderful semester, packed with traveling and plenty of adventure. Recently, we traveled to El Sur, a small town of ten families to learn about rural sustainable development. In El Sur, we [...]
