This web site describes my experiences during the Environmental Science Institute of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Leadership Program for Teachers  from July 14 - August 5, 1999.  The Institute visited three different biological research stations of the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) in Costa Rica (La Selva, Las Cruces and Palo Verde).  This program was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Click on one of the following pictures to learn more:
 
 

	This is the team that I studied bats with.  Left to right:  Nancy Allen, Amy Biasucci, myself, Andrea Wetterer (resource person) and Dale Mast.  Click on the photo to read my biography.
	This is a coati at La Selva. Click on his photo to read excerpts from my journal at the three research stations.
	This is a wedding veil fungus. Costa Rica is full of all sorts of exciting species of plants, animals and birds.
	This is Artibeus toltecus. He is a leaf-nosed bat. Click on his photo to read about the research we did on bats at La Selva.
	This is a species of Erythrina. Click on this photo to read about the research we did on hummingbird visits to this and two other plants at Las Cruces.
	Here I am thigh deep in the Palo Verde marsh!  On my left is Myra Halpin. Click on the picture to read about my project: A Comparision of Nymphae-Dominated Areas with Typha/Nymphae Areas at Laguna Palo Verde.
	This is a heliconia in the Wilson Botanical Garden at Las Cruces.