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Scenes from Winter Break Travel Study Courses

forest landscape with bright green leaves blurred in the foreground that frame a view of a lush forest.
A view from the Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica (photo: instructor Jacob Suissa)

For some CALS students, winter break was spent hard at work while immersed in travel study courses in St. Lucia and Costa Rica. See scenes from their travels.

Students in CDAE 187 Community Development in St. Lucia began working with the St. Lucian government and community partners last fall to help assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals and households.

students and community partners seated around a conference room table
Students meeting with St. Lucia Consumer Affairs Department staff.

students and community partners seated around a conference room table

Students in PBIO 232: Plant Systematics in Costa Rica spent two weeks studying the biodiversity and evolution of tropical plants.

students writing in notebooks standing in a tropical forest
Here they explore the Costa Rican dry forest at the Lomas de Barbudal Biological Reserve. (Photo: Jacob Suissa)
group of students and their instructors posing for a group photo in a tropical forest
Students botanizing the famous cloud forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica – a unique ecosystem and hotbed of biodiversity. (Photo: Jacob Suissa)