Each semester during their homestays, students conduct independent research projects in a concentration of their choice. Past student projects have focused on topics including the effect of light pollution on bats, corolla preferences in hummingbirds, and chemical defenses in Monteverde caterpillars. Students conduct their research over a four-week period and organize their findings into a scientific paper to be presented at a public Symposium at the program’s end.
Here, you will find student projects from previous Tropical Ecology & Conservation programs:
Summer 2022
Summer 2021
Spring 2019 
Fall 2018
Summer 2018 
Summer 2017
Spring 2017
Summer 2016
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