We plan on sharing pictures about our experience as the trip progresses, but understand that internet access is at times limited on Navarino Island and hence that updates may be sporadic rather than continuous. Also, we will leaving for Lake Robalo upon arrival from Punta Arenas on Jan. 3 and be camping there for 3 nights, so the first update from Navarino Island may be on Jan. 6th.
 Dr. Ricardo Rozzi meets with students in Punta Arenas |
 Jeff and other students view penguins in a colony near Punta Arenas. |
Watching the penguins. |
 Ricardo talks with students at the penguin colony. |
 Eddie and Alex at the penguin colony. |
Eddie on top of our favorite tree in Punta Arenas. It supported as many as a dozen of us at a time and had room for more. |
 New Year’s Eve in Punta Arenas. |
 Nina, Alyssa and Erika share a laugh before the ferry leaves Punta Arenas. |
 Birding on the Straits of Magellan. |
 Huddling together on the deck of the ferry to stay warm while sharing an avocado. |
 Group shot in the bow of the ferry. |
 Nina and Alex on the ferry. |
 Jeff taking pictures on the ferry. |
 The UConn contingent in front of one of the glaciers we saw on the Beagle Channel. |
 Nina and other students settle into their tent after setting it up at Lake Tortuga, where we camped for three days. |
 Exploring the shore of Lake Tortuga with the Dientes de Navarino in the background. |
 Getting set up for field work in the mountains. |
 UConn grad student Lily Lewis, at right, leads students in an exercise involving mosses at Omora Ethnobotanical Park in Puerto Williams. |
 Wyatt and Alex draw mosses and lichens in Omora Park. |
 Lily works with Jeff on moss identification. |
 Alyssa shows bryologists the leaf of a Nothofagus tree. She and other students led tours of Omora Park for moss specialists attending an international conference in Puerto Williams. |
 Andrew talks about biocultural conservation in Omora Park. |
 Erika talks with visiting bryologists in Omora Park while Alex looks on. |
 Wyatt talks with one of the bryologists attending an international conference in Puerto Williams. |
 Students work on their journals in the hostal where we stayed in Puerto Williams. |
 Students huddle together on the summit of Cerro La Bandera, where it was very windy, cold and snowy. |
 Here’s the group on top of Cerro La Bandera, complete with Bernard and Bob. |
As an illustration of how changeable the weather is on Navarino, this is what the top of Cerro La Bandera looked like five minutes earlier. |
Students pose on the summit of Cerro La Bandera after spending a day setting up vegetation plots along an elevational gradient. The plots will be monitored each year to record any changes that may result from global warming. |
 Relaxing in the hostal. |
Erika explains the different perspectives that can be applied to biological communities during her group’s report on the week’s activities. |
During his group’s final presentation, Wyatt explains the experiences that Eddie found most memorable. |
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