Abstract
Experiential Student Learning and Collaborative Research: Understanding Tropical Ecosystem Response to Climate Change from Leaves to Landscapes.
During January 2012, I traveled to Costa Rica to visit potential field sites for a future UNH J-term course in Tropical Ecology and to collect preliminary data for a new research project linked to the course. Both of these initiatives are in collaboration with Dr. Michael Palace, a research scientist at UNH’s Earth Systems Research Center. Together, we visited three sites in Costa Rica, each having very different climates and vegetation: Curu Wildlife Refuge, a tropical dry deciduous forest receiving only about 1,500mm rain annually; La Selva Biological Station, a lowland tropical rainforest that receives over 4,000 m of rain annually, and Monteverde Reserve, a tropical montane cloud forest that is immersed in fog for much of the year.
Publication Date
Spring 2012
Publisher
University of New Hampshire
Document Type
Report
Recommended Citation
Asbjornsen, Heidi, "Heidi Asbjornsen Associate Professor of Natural Resources, COLSA, travels to Costa Rica" (2012). Faculty Travel Reports. 73.
https://scholars.unh.edu/international_travel/73