Tree Climbing for Climate Change Research

Thanks to much Peggy!

Thanks so much Nancy!! You are bringing us into the home stretch!

Thanks!!

Thanks for supporting Lex. See you soon.

Thank you so much Theresa and Susan! You are pulling us into the home stretch!! We all appreciate it greatly!

Thanks so much for your support Randol!!!

Thank you Heidi

Thanks so much Heidi. We all appreciate it!!

Thanks so much John!

Thank you John.

Thanks Jennifer. See you soon

Absolutely!! Good point! We are certainly aware of longer term changes in climate throughout the history of the earth. What is concerning from our perspective is that climate has been changing in the last 40 years at our site (we have records) and is projected to change further, and quickly. Deforestation in the lowlands has heated up the air over those regions which pushes up the clouds so when the clouds reach our study site in the mountains those clouds are higher in elevation. This means that the clouds are not as much in contact with the forest as they once were and that is bad news for epiphytes. These are regional changes in land use affecting the climate of the TMCF...there are of course larger scale climate issues at play as well. Costa Rica is a tiny country with an ocean on either side so any increase in ocean temperatures will influence cloud formation and cloud base heights and will influence precipitation as well. Thanks for your support and for bringing up this important point! Sybil

Thanks Jeff!

Thank you Jeff. Will we ever see each other?

Thank you Jack.

Thank you so much for your very generous support Jack!

Thanks Tom

Thank you so much Tom!!

Thanks so much Karen!!

That's right!! You have to see the big platform in all it's glory!

Thanks so much Uncle Wayne, you are the best!

Thanks much!

Thank you so much! Ken IS fantastic, I am looking forward to seeing what his research this semester will uncover. I hope to meet you both soon!

Emily thank you so much for your support! Jeanne thanks for helping Emily!! We still have a long way to go but we have our fingers crossed and are so grateful for the support we have received thus far!

Thanks Martha!!

Thanks so much Becky and Harry! We really appreciate the support!

Thanks Fran!!

Thanks Liz!

Muchisimas Gracias!!!

Thanks!

Thanks much!

Thanks so much Jill! Lex has been a member of our team from the beginning! He has become quite the climber and scientist in the two years that we have been working together! I will be sad (but of course happy too) to see him graduate.

Well Wanda if we get funded we are inviting all our backers to join us for a tree climb in Monteverde....you might just get your chance! Good luck to you as well!

Thanks!

Thank you!!

We greatly appreciate your support Nancy and Jeanne!

Thank you Aaron!

Thanks so much for your support Ben. We look forward to hearing about your summertime adventures!

We will! You might have to come visit and climb with us!

Me too! I am really excited to see what we find! Your harness awaits you on the green mountain, come anytime!

Thanks so much Nalini!

There are lots of epiphytic ferns where I work. In fact there is a graduate student, Emily Hollenbeck, from Brown University who is working with a number of species of Elaphoglossum.

You are welcome anytime!

Gotcha. Cool! Glad to know that we can zip by without doing any harm :)