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Carpenter Bequest

Photo via LinkedIn All of us at OTS are deeply grateful and excited to announce the bequest to OTS of $430,000 from the Francis Lynn Carpenter Trust. Lynn, a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Irvine, one of OTS’ permanent member institutions, was a central and...
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September 30, 2024 by Jennifer Kelley
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OTS South Africa turns 20

It's been just over 20 years ago that we launched the OTS African Ecology and Conservation courses in South Africa after two years of careful discussions. Thanks to the initial funding from the Mellon Foundation, a partnership between OTS, WITS, UCT, and SANParks emerged in the form of a study...
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September 30, 2024 by Laurence Kruger
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An excerpt: “Quetzals: Icons of the Cloud Forest”

Quetzals: Icons of the Cloud Forest Alan F. Poole Photo credit: Zona Tropical Publications The following is an excerpt from Alan F. Poole's book, Quetzals: Icons of the Cloud Forest: “……a bird of such incredible beauty that for 200 years European naturalists thought it must be the fabrication of American...
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September 30, 2024 by Alan F. Poole (Retired Editor, "Birds of North America Online;" Associate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
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Open Doors Festival 2024 at Las Cruces Research Station

Photo credit: Ramon Morales Garro Open Doors is a tradition that was born in 2008. The event has been evolving as a means of community outreach at the Las Cruces Research Station and Wilson Botanical Garden, with the intention of opening the station’s doors once a year to all people...
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September 30, 2024 by Yolanda Morales Chinchilla, Las Cruces Research Station
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In Remembrance of Rodolfo Silva Vargas

Photo credit: Carlos Silva I share the sad news that Rodolfo Silva, a long-time OTS friend and supporter, passed away on July 10, 2024, at the age of 91, leaving behind his wife Margaret, his son Carlos and wife Irene, and two grandsons. Rodolfo was born in Costa Rica and...
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September 30, 2024 by Pedro León, Ph. D.
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OTS community news – September 2024

Photo credit: BioQUEST OTS is represented in the OCELOTS network. New online modules for teaching tropical biology are based on research by the OTS community. La Selva researchers G. Small and C. Ganong created a module to allow students to explore how phosphorus cycling changes with stream characteristics and the...
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September 30, 2024 by Jennifer Kelley