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Photos
from the Field
Click the camera above for a photo journey with the team in Costa
Rica.
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These reports
have been filed by the ISEM team during their 2001 field work.
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Click
the calendar above to go directly to the day's reports, or browse
the summaries below!
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May
13
 It
was a primordial scene, replete with the howls of monkeys and
calls birds, the splash of caimans, the stealth of herons and
rails, the dive-bombing of hummingbirds, and the dash of kingfishers.
The cacophony of unfamiliar sounds was layered on a slow current
of quiet, on our own breathing as we drifted on the swamp-black
and glassy-smooth water, slipping in and out of reaching branches.
It ended all to soon...
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May
12 & 13
We
got the humeri from a HUGE green turtle. The cat had drug it only
about a meter or so into the brush so it really wasn't too bad
crawling into the forest. This turtle was just too big to drag
out to the beach, as we were able to do last year. So we had to
ward off the buzzards and really work fast. Unfortunately, our
knives just don't hold an edge long.
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May
11
After
Louis and I returned to the station we began hiking down the beach
toward Dana and Diana and met them around mile 4. We all headed
back to the station and had lunch. Louis and I defleshed Green
Turtle flippers to retrieve the Humeri (upper arm bones).
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May
10
 The
best the guide saved for last: we got in very close with a troop
of White-faced Monkeys that were as curious about us as were about
them. As we floated through the back canals of the Rio Tortuguero
system, we realized that we were in an incredible ecosystem that
seemed to go on endlessly, a sight very rarely seen anyplace else
on Earth.
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May
9
 This
morning we caught a boat ride with some of the other researchers
and were dropped off at mile 18, on the southern tip of the island.
We walked the beach in search for strandings to mile 15. We found
none, however we observed about 10 fresh leatherback nesting sites.
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May
7 & 8
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He also pointed out some of the wildlife to us, including Coatimundis.
Unfortunately, Coatiis love to raid the fresh nests of sea turtles.
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May
6
We
started this morning around 9 and headed south. We saw three recent
nesting sites.
We didn't find any recent strandings from which to collect specimens,
however.
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May
5
We
arrived safely to Tortuguero around 1 this afternoon. Our journey today
began crossing the continental divide from the Pacific to the Caribbean
side. As we descended into the cloud forest, we saw the Sucio River
(yellow from volcanic sulfur and iron). Along the slops of the valley
were giant (1 m across) plants of the Bumeria, often called "poor
man's umbrella".
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