Course Name	Coordinators	Course Duration & dates	Application Deadline
Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes	Robbin Moran James Watkins	2 weeks January 9-23, 2008	August 31, 2007 *** Descargar Formulario de Inscripción
Estuarios Tropicales y su Cuenca: aspectos físicos, químicos, biológicos y de manejo (in Spanish)	José Vargas	1 week 18-23 February , 2008	November 15, 2007 *** Download Application Form
Neotropical Herpetology	Mo Donnelly Craig Guyer	2 weeks May 16-27, 2008	February 15, 2008 Download Application Form
Conservation and Biodiversity Genetics	James Hamrick John Wares	2 weeks May 18-31, 2008	February 15, 2008 Download Application Form

Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes
– This is an intensive, 2 week field introduction to the identification, classification, phylogenetics, ecology, and reproductive biology of tropical ferns. The course will interest ecologists, botanists, and conservation biologists. Any researcher who requires a broad knowledge of fern and lycophyte biology will benefit from this course; it is designed to build the diverse skills needed for floristic, taxonomic, phylogenetics, and ecological research on tropical ferns.
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Estuarios Tropicales y su Cuenca: aspectos físicos, químicos, biolígicos y de manejo.
–This course provides a view of the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of tropical estuaries and their management, and introduces aspects of the watersheds that influence these characteristics. The course will take place in the marine station Punta Morales, Puntarenas (rocky zone, muddy and sandy beaches, mangroves) and the Palo Verde Biological Station, Guanacaste (handling and restoration of wetlands; migratory birds). The program includes expert lectures, field work, sampling protocols, laboratory work for the identification of groups and species, and the use of multivariate statistics. It is oriented to professionals and graduate students from Central America and the Caribbean. The course will be taught in Spanish.
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Neotropical Herpetology.
–This will be a 14–day course in tropical herpetology that is directed towards advanced graduate students who are interested in conducting field research on amphibians and reptiles. The course will be based at the La Selva Biological Station, home to a diverse herpetofauna and modern laboratory facilities. The main objectives will be to introduce students to current techniques for inventorying and monitoring a herpetofauna and to describe recent topics in evolutionary ecology of Neotropical herps. A mixture of lectures, field activities, and discussions will be used to meet these objectives. We will use data collected in the field to demonstrate analytical tools and recent papers to introduce lecture materials.
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Conservation and Biodiversity Genetics
–Field management of populations and communities needs to be complemented with genetic markers. Genetic data allow the quantification and comparison of diversity and promote a better understanding of how reproductive life history and dispersal traits affect an organism’s interaction with the environment. This course is primarily to train and build the community of conservation researchers in Central and South America, and the USA topics to be covered include: measurement of genetic diversity, phylogeography, application of molecular data to taxonomic questions, gene flow, mating systems, and effective population size estimates. It also discusses the cost-effectiveness of different approaches, the underlying theory as it applies to conservation questions, and the best ways to integrate experiment and field-based data with these analytical results.
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