Information about planning and experiencing the sabbatical in Costa Rica.
In part three of this series, I will look at another old database, which contrary to the SWOT database (of part 2), is designed for the capture of beach patrol data. … More STRDs part 3 : Turtle Research and Monitoring Database System (TREDS)
Earlier I introduced the wish at Osa Conservation’s sea turtle program for some solution to unify data entry by volunteers during and/or after their beach patrols. In part two, I will look at one of the oldest solutions I could find on line. … More STRDs part 2 : The state of the world’s sea turtles (SWOT)
When people think about innovation, they usually portray technological artifacts. But innovation is much more than that. In simple terms, it is about the capacity to change. As it goes, many conservation projects require individuals and organizations to change, to adopt new practices, to abandon others. This is where an economist with an Economics of … More Economics of Innovation and Conservation
Een week aan de overkant van de Golfo Dulce. Met zon, zee en strand en een fantastische boottocht door een mangrovebos. … More Week 20. Zon, zee, strand … en mangrove
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As some of you might have noticed, this last week I have not been so active on the blog. The reason for that is that as part of the volunteer work, I have been (finally) in the field, doing interviews with fishermen in some rural areas in Costa Rica. It has been intense and tiresome. … More A fisherman’s life from the peephole and what it can teach us about poverty, conservation and life
This is the start of a series of posts about sea turtle research databases. The questions are which ones already exist, what do they do, how do they compare and would they be suitable for Osa Conservation? … More STRDs part 1 : Sea Turtle Research Databases
Afgelopen week was een gewone werk-vanuit-huis week. Maar we zijn wat meer de deur uit geweest. Cristina heeft een paar dagen interviews buiten de deur gedaan – met masker natuurlijk. We hebben een morgen in het kantoor van Osa Conservation gewerkt. En nu zijn we op een vierdaagse excursie! … More Week 19. Excursie!!!!
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Today I woke up before the alarm totally rested. The sun was shining in the room and the jungle was awake. I could hear the collared forest falcon with his early pooouu pooouu. In the distance the howlers and the scarlet macaws. In between, the “pipopipos” (the wood rails). Just like every morning. But today, … More Taking pleasure in the small things in life
THE FLIP FLOP LIFE 