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A winter day in Chicago, at the famous Flamingo sculpture in the Federal Plaza. Photo courtesy of Giulia Hines.
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Aug 18, 2010
From a remote beach in Costa Rica's Santa Rosa National Park where he was studying sea turtles, Colorado College student Alex Wong Berman had a two-hour hike through tropical forest and coastline to get to the nearest road.
Alex Wong Berman with his supplies.
That's where he would meet ACM Costa Rica Program Director Chris Vaughan and research supervisor Mike McCoy, to pick up supplies they were bringing with them and to talk with them about the progress of his two-month field research project.
To get to the meeting spot, Vaughan and McCoy had a bone-jarring drive down that one-lane, dirt-and-rock road – passable only during the dry season – stopping from time to time to clear rocks and tree limbs out of the way so their jeep could get through.
"It's not the usual kind of a research site for an undergraduate," Vaughan noted. It was a perfect site, though, for Wong Berman's project on the embryonic development of Olive Ridley turtles, since thousands of the turtles make their nests on this beach. Read more
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