Eastern Student David Stein Participates in Global Field Course to Costa Rica

2012 Sep 29

David Stein '12 of Lebanon, CT, was one of a group of Eastern Connecticut State University undergraduate biology students who traveled to Costa Rica to study local fauna. Stein is majoring in Biology.

Biology students had the opportunity to participate in an intensive 12-day field experience in Costa Rica earlier this summer that focused on various aspects of tropical forest ecology and conservation issues confronting developing countries in the neo-tropics. The emphasis of the course was on basic aspects of tropical rainforest ecology and the natural history of tropical organisms. Students conducted field research projects on such topics as the peculiarities of tropical agriculture, the socioeconomic consequences of development in the tropics, and the conservation of tropical ecosystems.

Eastern Connecticut State University is the state's public liberal arts university and serves approximately 5,400 students each year on its Willimantic campus and satellite locations.