Arequipa part 2: Weather and Water

Here's the 2nd part of the Arequipa post that we did on the Wilderness Classroom site.

Peru This Week - Arequipa article

While we're in Peru, we're contributing articles to Peru This Week, an online news portal designed to be the world's window on Peru.  Here is our 2nd article, titled "Arequipa, Sun, More Sun, and an Earthquake."  You can find our 1st article at this link.

Mystery Photo #4

Here's our 4th mystery photo post to the Wilderness Classroom site.  Click this link to guess what it is.  Hint - make sure you read our Arequipa post!

Arequipa: Part 1 – Volcanoes & Earthquakes

Here's another notes from the trail post that we did on The Wilderness Classroom site.  It's the first part of information about the lovely and very uniquely situated city of Arequipa.

Video conferences with classrooms

For interested teachers and classrooms that are following us, we've set aside two times in the next couple of months to do 1:1 video conferences with individual classrooms.  They are:

Monday, October 28th - between 10am and 12noon (Central time)
Thursday, November 21st - between 10am and 12noon (Central time)
   (The topic for Nov 21st will be The Galapagos)

NatureKids

Here's another notes from the trail post that we did on The Wilderness Classroom site.  It's from time we spent a few weeks ago with NatureKids, a great organization and a great group of kids in Drake Bay, Costa Rica.

Mystery Photo #3

Here's our 3rd mystery photo post to The Wilderness Classroom site.  Check out this link to guess what it is.

3 Minute Intro Video

Here is a 3-minute video we created about our trip for the Peter Hobart community and The Wilderness Classroom.  Lots of Jamie & Jason narration!

Chocolate Comes From a Fruit

Here's another notes from the trail post that we did on The Wilderness Classroom site.  It's from a chocolate tour we did while in Costa Rica, and uses information that Jamie created on one of her posts.

Climate Change in the Cloud Forest

I wrote this article a few weeks ago, while in Costa Rica.  It's now been picked up and published on the Tico Times online newspaper (Costa Rica English language publication) and on Mongabay.com (environmental science and conservation news site).

Tico Times article
Mongabay.com article

A big thanks to J. Alan Pounds, resident scientist at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve, Bob Law one of the founders of the Children's Eternal Rainforest (CER) in Monteverde, and Wendy Brenes a park ranger at CER, who each spent a lot of time with me discussing climate impacts and just teaching my family and me about the cloud forest.

Peru this Week

From a suggestion by a Nature Conservancy contact, we have connected with Peru this Week, an online news portal designed to be the world’s window on Peru.  We will be contributing content on their site during our 6 weeks in Peru.  Here is an introductory article about us on the Peru this Week site.

Mystery Photo #2

Here's our 2nd mystery photo post to The Wilderness Classroom site.  Check out this link to guess what it is.

How Kids and Blue Ropes Saved Monkeys

Here's another notes from the trail post that we did on The Wilderness Classroom site.  It's from our time at Manuel Antonio National Park in Costa Rica, and is a great story about how two 9-year old girls started an organization that has saved a lot of monkeys.

This is based on the post Jason did on the kids blog.