Description

Leave the classroom behind. Join us for an in-the-field exploration of tropical animal and plant biodiversity taking place in the Galapagos and the Amazon. In 1831, Darwin sailed to the Galapagos Islands, on a journey that would forever change how he saw the world and his place in it. This summer, you too have an opportunity to embark on a project of your choosing in that same magical place, working alongside full time researchers and naturalists. Who knows where your discoveries will lead. Broadreach College has teamed with the Tiputini Amazon research station and San Cristobal Galapagos research station to provide you with this unique, insightful, up-close experience.

On this three week course, students will study animal and plant biodiversity as well as cultural approaches to conservation and sustainable practices. Students will participate in lectures, discussions with local stakeholders, field activities, as well as ongoing service work at the research stations. Students will learn overland survey techniques for mammals and birds. Students will visit and study at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in the Amazon, the Galapagos Academic Institute for the Arts and Sciences on San Cristobal, and take a two day hike through the Andes mountains for a comparison of three ecological zones, all with differing challenges, each in different stages of development.