{"id":21558,"date":"2015-11-30T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/?p=21558"},"modified":"2024-06-20T09:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T13:38:11","slug":"travel-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/travel-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rica Trip with Paul Sotherland in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College Professor of Biology Paul Sotherland led an 8 day alumni trip to Costa Rica in November of 2015. The trip sold out quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tour Highlights Included:<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9538\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2012\/06\/Costa-Rica-Trip-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"Costa Rica - 2015 Kalamazoo College Alumni Trip\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discovering the rainforest surrounding the Arenal Volcano from a unique perspective on the Arenal Hanging Bridges tour<\/li>\n<li>Taking a floating safari through the tropical rainforest to visit the Ca\u00f1o Negro Wildlife Refuge<\/li>\n<li>Hiking the Children\u2019s Eternal Rain Forest and viewing this area\u2019s amazing biodiversity<\/li>\n<li>Experiencing turtles nesting at night, one of the most incredible phenomena of Mother Nature<\/li>\n<li>Taking a tropical sunset cruise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A message about the trip from Paul Sotherland in 2015:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/12\/aul-Sotherland-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Paul Sotherland digging in Costa Rica\" width=\"149\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Alumni and Friends,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am interested primarily in the ecological physiology of vertebrate eggs. Much of my attention for the past 40 years has been on factors affecting developmental trajectories of birds, turtles, and alligators while they develop in their eggs. For several field seasons at Playa Grande, Costa Rica, I focused on trying to understand how leatherback turtle embryos develop while in nests buried nearly one meter below the surface of the sand. So\u2026come with me to Costa Rica, where we will explore cloud forests near an active volcano and beaches on the Pacific coast. \u00a1Pura vida!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <em>Paul Sotherland<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College Professor of Biology Paul Sotherland led an 8 day alumni trip to Costa Rica in November of 2015. The trip sold out quickly. 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