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Team Costa Rica has moved on from Santa Rosa to Rincon de la Vieja, another of the amazing areas preserved within the Area Conservacion de Guanacaste (ACG). Here, we are sampling soils from very diverse vegetation types; rain forest vegetation to grassy shrublands. With every twist and turn on the trail the forest changes dramatically.

Then, on June 25, team Stromberg drove to Railroad Canyon (RRC), which is situated on the border between MT and ID to look at and collect rocks of (Early-)Middle Miocene age (~18-14 million years old). We are interested in these rocks because the Middle Miocene was the warmest interval in Earth's history in the last 35 million years.

Team Costa Rica made great progress sampling today before the torrential down pour began. There is enough light to work here by 5 am, but its completely dark by 6 pm. The rain starts around 3 and the food is amazing here at La Selva!