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Presentation day

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A group of us woke up around 5 am to get to the lookout tower to see the sunrise. We also helped Lucas with getting drone footage which was really fun. After our morning adventure, Jacob and I touched up our presentation and ran through it a few times this morning. Around 1pm, we finally presented our project to the other group and our findings. Our project was looking at forest that was categorized as primary forest, secondary forest, and abandoned pasture. We wanted to see how the habitat and the water quality differed from each other in this categories. We found that abandoned pasture had more diverse community of macro invertebrates which would suggest that it had a better water quality than the other two but the primary forest had better habitat and in the riparian zone and in the stream when a habitat evaluation was done. After all that practice this morning, our presentation didn’t go as planned but we got through it. Now it’s all down hill from here.
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Finishing up the poster

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Today we put the final touches on our poster by inputting our graphs and wording. The Panama visitors also gave a demonstration on how they make the string to make their bags. At the end of the day a few of us shared some of our culture with the panama visitors and they did the same. Kayonnie from Yakima explain her tattoos and how some represents her dad, mom and brothers and how they protect her. Nicole and Deb from a Wisconsin tribe presented Lucia from panama with tradition ear rings from their tribe. Paula from a northern tribe in California showed the panama visitors a video of a traditional dance. Brea from the fort hall tribe in Idaho explained how to play stick games.
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Data analysis

Me, my partner Jacob and our mentor Deb started to analyze our data that we collected out in the field. We also started to put together our presentation poster. I didn’t really get to do much today because I was sick but I put some effort in haha
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Sunday funday

Today we drove into town to have lunch, and we ate at a pizza joint. It felt good to eat something else besides rice and beans. The Bepsi tasted really good. A group of use also walked around town and we ended up at a coffee shop that served crepes and milkshakes. We spent the afternoon in town and by the time we got back to the center I wasn’t feeling up to doing anything so I slept the rest of the afternoon
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Final day of data collection

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The day started off my finding a walking stick on our trail which was an amazing start of the day. We reached our final sampling site and it was right in front of a small water fall. It was a pretty spot, but for some reason, the flies really liked my Jean haha. After we finished collecting data, we attempted to make it to another waterfall site but was not successful. We took our lunch on a trail and during our lunch, a few monkeys were in a tree above us. After lunch we decided to head back to the research grounds and we ran into a spider that was as long as my fingers. One of the most scariest spiders I have ever seen. We were almost back and we ran into the native people here, and they caught a huge butterfly. We were also accompanied by the film crew(Lucas). I would have to say this was the best day here!
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2nd day is data collection

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Today was an easier hike out to our collection site. Probably cause we knew what we were getting into. We sampled in abandon pasture which may have been like 10-15 years ago. In our Macroinvertebrate sample we saw crabs, mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisfly larva. So our habitat we riparian zone we were able to see plants that were good indicators that there was some tree removal in the past because they are to first to grow when the sunlight is able to reach the ground. Along the hike to our site, we saw some wild bananas and we opened one up and it smelled like cucumbers.
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Day one of data collection

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Before we left for our first day of field research, the group got blessed by a chief from a panama reservation. After the blessing, we went on a 5.14 mile hike into our first sampling hike. We did two kinds of samples. Like from my previous blog I mention we are doing two kinds of sampling that we look at the BMIs and habitat assessment. We also went and tried to look for a waterfall but with no success. During the hike out to the area, I kept telling myself “I’m in Costa Rica” and that’s what put my situation in perspective and I enjoyed my day even more.
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