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Housing
Accommodations, Classrooms & Facilities |
Ometepe |
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La Suerte
Biological Field Station |
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La Suerte Biological
Field Station provides rustic but comfortable accommodations. Facilities
include nine buildings (main house, restaurant quality cooking facilities,
three residential cabins, two staff houses,
a library/laboratory, and an additional residential cabin and
lecture hall), potable running water and standard electrical
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Living accommodations combine the atmosphere of a college dorm
with the sounds, sights, and smells of the tropical rainforest.
Several of the cabins are located along the edge of the forest,
overlooking the La Suerte River and offer a spectacular view
of the rainforest and its inhabitants. Each cabin contains screened-in
rooms, showers (no hot water), and flush toilets. Students sleep
on bunk beds (4-6 to a room) fitted with sheets, pillows,
and foam mattresses.
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The library and laboratory are housed together. A partial list of
laboratory/field equipment include stereo microscopes, dissecting
kit, dial calipers, electronic and Pesola scales and measuring tapes,
mapping equipment (Brunton compasses, tripods, etc.), refrigerator,
insect collection and storage equipment, dry
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box,
minnow seine, aquatic dipnets, mist nets, black (ultraviolet)
light, aquaria, terreria, thermometers, humidity gauge, spherical
densiometer, altimeter, light table, magnifier lights, hand
lenses, plant press, plant collecting equipment, graphics materials,
TASCAM DAT1 portable digital recorder, 200' live-wire M50, AKG
stereo head phones, AKG C747 directional condenser microphone
and cable (Digital Audio Tapes Are Not Provided By The
Station).The classrooms are in the main house and in
a large conference room located within the cabins (Casa Molina,
and the conference room equipment include chalkboards,
overhead and slide projectors, and video recorder, player and monitor). |
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The kitchen
staff prepares group meals at Casa Molina three times daily by Doña
Lillian Molina and the kitchen staff. Meals are served buffet style
in a screened dining hall, and include a combination of traditional
Central American cuisine and more typical North American dishes. Meals
include fresh fruit and vegetables, yucca, heart of palm -- and other
foods local to the region. Efforts are made to accommodate those with
medically-related dietary needs. There is always ample food at each
meal.
La Suerte is also within walking distance of the small village of
Primavera, where students can purchase items such as cokes, ice-cream,
snacks, toiletries, etc.
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