La Suerte Biological Field Station, Costa Rica and Ometepe Biological Field Station Nicaragua. Make sure you arrive in Costa Rica Juan Santa Maria Airport and depart out of Nicaragua, Airport Las Mercedes.
Tickets are available arriving in one country and departing form another.
It is designed to give students hands-on experience in plant ecology in the Neotropics. The course will consist of lectures and field work, with field work representing the major portion of the course. Students will carry out an independent research project of their choosing and report their findings at the end of the course both orally and in a written report. Students should bring a journal article in an area of research in which they have an interest for the purposes of discussion. The course will also include valuable techniques such as map making and characterization of the forests, as well as plant identification.