While everyone on the Bolivia team came here with the same goals, we (Lily and Sydney) were sent with a specific task: to collect data regarding the health and sanitation of the rural community we visited in the Amazon. Shoulder to shoulder worked alongside the epidemiology department at Wayne State University (located in Detroit,Mi) to...
We boated out to an ecotone, where the mangroves meet the reef to form an interesting combined habitat. This was a short snorkeling trip where the main goal was for the Marine Lab instructors to find a pink algae which ended up being a habitat for tons of different invertebrate species. During the introduction of...
After a late night playing cards, we had an early start where our team prepared breakfast for us in the community kitchen! Following breakfast, we hit the road to our friend Fernando’s farm in the mountains. At the farm, we met Fernando’s cousins, the twins, Javier and Jaime, where we went through the process of...