Category Archives: Collecting & Research Expeditions

Today is the last day of the trip. Tomorrow I leave back for the states. Although the weather has been a tad bit rough, I got some good data and collected some data on some cichlids I had nothing on. … Continue reading →

I’ve never seen so much rain in my life! It has rained non stop the last two days. This means we couldn’t get out to sample fish today and had to do some lab work. Luckily, even with more downpours, … Continue reading →

Because of the rain today we traveled west towards Rio Jaco with a stop at the Rio Machuca along the way. At Rio Machuca there is only one cichlid, Tomocichla sieboldii. It’s a pretty looking location variant and I saw … Continue reading →

Sadly, this is another very unexciting post. It rained all day today. As I’m typing now it has just stopped, but otherwise it was a constant rain to even a downpour all day. The Rio Puerto Viejo is muddy as … Continue reading →

True or false- It rains in the rainforest? True…non-debatable. We had some downpours today and I guess you could say the river is a bit high. This is a photo of the rainforest I took at the field station from … Continue reading →

I must say this is going to be a boring blog post. With our late arrival and tiring trip to Southwest Costa Rica to the Rio Coloradito and Osa peninsula, we took it easy today. I did a bunch of … Continue reading →

On this day we hit the Rio Coloradito in search of Amphilophus lyonsi. We didn’t find any, nor many cichlids at all. The only two cichlids that we saw spawning was a pair of Tomocichla sieboldii and Astatheros altifrons. As … Continue reading →

Today we went to the Southwest. Our goal is to hit the Rio Coloradito in search of Amphilophus lyonsi and Astatheros altifrons.It was an early morning for the long drive ahead. We started driving at 4 am. In the morning … Continue reading →

Because of our late arrival back to the station yesterday and our decision to go to the Osa peninsula tomorrow (10 hour drive) we decided to take it easy today and just do a hike. We did see some great … Continue reading →

We went right to the Rio Sixiola, the border between Panama and Costa Rica for some fish hunting today. This area has some nice cichlids: Convicts, Topaz cichlids, Parachromis loiselli, and Astatheros bussingi. Sadly, we mostly saw gobies. The Rio … Continue reading →