Prof. Amy Rhodes (Geology), Prof. Andrew Guswa (Engineering), have been conducting hydrologic and geochemical investigations in Monteverde, Costa Rica since January 2002.

View of the Monteverde Institute with our meteorological station on the roof

June Yeung '07 and Merilie Reynolds '08 measure discharge on the Rio Guacimal in January 2006

Rainbow seen from San Luis Bajo

Team Agua from the Summer 2005 campaign, from left, June Yeung '07, Mai Kobayashi '06, Merilie Reynolds '08, Ilona Johnson '06, and Erin (the International Food Prize Intern for 2005)

Mountains in the Mist

Hard at work in the lab

Arenal Volcano

Ilona Johnson '06 on a Strangler Fig tree

Professor Amy Rhodes and Nat Scrimshaw from the Monteverde Institute at the springs above the Quebrada Maquina

Professor Amy Rhodes, Irma Torres '05, and Evelyn Kim '02 sampling the Rio Guacimal

Professor Drew Guswa at the Rio Guacimal

Evelyn Kim '02 preparing to measure discharge in the Rio Guacimal

Early morning view from the Trocha into the San Luis valley and beyond

Smith team during the summer of 2004: Ilona Johnson '06, Silvia Newell '04, Elizabeth Koenig '05, Mai Kobayashi '06 (left to right)

View over portions of the Rio Guacimal (left) and Rio San Luis watersheds up to the continental divide. The confluence of the rivers is at the right side of the photo.

Looking over the Palo Verde wetland to the Rio Tempisque