Issues in Environmental Science (Tropical Biodiversity Conservation)
Course Description
Issues in Environmental Science (ENVR 1302) – 3 Semester hours
This summer (2024), you are invited to join me in tropical Costa Rica, at the La Selva Research Station. La Selva offers the opportunity to study biodiversity in a unique ecosystem that contains more than 2077 species of plants; 125 species of mammals; 470 bird species; 48 amphibian species; 87 reptile species; 45 species of freshwater fish, and tens of thousands of insects, arachnids, and other arthropods. More birds, more trees, more butterflies, more ants, more frogs, and more everything.
The remoteness of the rainforest will allow you to connect more fully with cycles of life very different from that experienced in urban areas in temperate climates. You can reflect on forces that shape tropical ecosystems and examine, up close, species and processes not found anywhere else in the world.
For more information, click on this link Costa Rica Study Abroad – Environmental Science
I look forward to you joining me in Costa Rica.
Instructors
Mark Shepherd, Ph.D., QEP E-mail: mark.shepherd@austincc.edu
