Month: January 2016

Sometimes it is good to be early for appointments.  My colleague in the Office of Study Abroad was not ready for our meeting, so I got to dawdle and text in the corridors of Lippincott Hall.  When I spied plaster casts of Greek statues through a doorway, I had to investigate.  I must have been holding…

Fantastic flight path out of Costa Rica, past volcanoes, over Lake Nicaragua, Honduras, then the awe-inspiring barrier reef off Belize.  Even though I am more at home in terrestrial forest landscapes, it is fantastic to see this extensive formation of coral islets…to imagine the wild colors, the calm water on the inside of the barrier…

In Carara National Park, Costa Rica, we found numerous Acacia trees with their Peudomyrmex ant defenders.  It is a classic model of mutualism, where species interaction over evolutionary time result in the interaction we see today. Each partner in this model provides benefits to its partner and obtains benefits in return. The ant’s have a…