Friday, October 9, 2009

Costa Rica

Sept 12 - Sept 22

10 DAYS in Costa Rica!!!

This trip was dedicated to connecting with university personnel, collecting data, and to make personal connections with scientists and managers from Costa Rican agencies (I.C.E). Except for a one day field trip to a dam construction site on the lower Reventazon River with ICE and one day at the beach in Cahuita to visit family, I was in the capitol city of San Jose ....... running from one meeting to the next.

PURPOSE: To set up my PhD research project. And it was a success!
Now I have the daunting task of getting funding for the research -- grant writing here I come....




-- Erick Campos -- ICE office, San Jose.










Guaria Cardenes, Universidad de Costa Rica, Central American School of Geology (mi agima!)





Idependence Day -- San Jose, Costa Rica (9/15): Parades of children in the streets.



Field Trip to the Caribbean-side with ICE --

The confluence of the Rio Sucio (dirty river) and Rio Honduras (natural sediment colorations)









Canyon of the Rio Reventazon -- where a dam will be built in 2010.
A day at Playa Grande (Cahuita) with my girls!!



----- Aunt Jo and Cousin Gayle





Me and Mom -----

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