Christmas catch-up

I have to catch up a little bit on the photographs… I know; I have several hundred pictures to pick through from Costa Rica.  Here’s a start – Christmas at my Aunt Lauraine’s and Uncle Mike’s.

Our Christmas tree

Gary checks for the receipt.

Next.

Lenny seems to think Gary's gifts are more interesting.

A [...]

Kingdom Plantae

No match for the machete.

Agua dulce

Marc works on a presentation while sipping warm aqua dulce at the cabin near Cerro de la Muerte. 

Geology of Arenal

Oscar explains some of the geology and recent history of the Arenal Volcano.

Working in San Ramon

 
Bernald, Marc, Laura, Alexa and Mauri are pictured below working on macroinvertebrate community diversity in headwater streams at San Ramon.  Bernald is an invited assistant from UCR specializing in Gerridae taxonomy.  In some photographs, a shade cloth used to exclude leaf litter from a stream can be seen hovering above the stream.
 

Teaching

Dan at Wolf Creek

Solomente dos

Only two students braved the wetland last weekend when a large group of student came to Palo Verde from UNA (Universidad Nacional).  I hope that’s not the case for the folks coming with Kent State this December…

Fed and Silvia were interested in counting ‘utriculos’ or bladders on Utricularia, but I convinced them to examine Neptunia [...]

Finishing the day

Boa and another recruit (Jose or Peru) after finishing sampling for the day. 

Only when the last river is poisoned

Boa holds (inappropriately) his Coluber mentovarius catch.  Paul noticed soon after that it was likely gravid (had eggs inside).