The University of Missouri Field Reporting Institutes

02/04/2017

Watch our appreciation video for Fern Perkins, program co-coordinator, on mucostarica.wordpress.com!

This is "Fern Gift" by Liza Anderson on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

01/07/2017

We're in the Gulf of Nicoya and a new development is underway involving potential illegal fishing practices within a sustainable fishing zone. Follow our Twitter for breaking updates! PC: Nadav Soroker

01/07/2017

Check out the early morning views from birding with Katy Cawdrey, student on the trip, and Fern Perkins, co-coordinator! PC: Katy Cawdrey

01/06/2017

The crew visited the Guacimal River in Guacimal, Costa Rica during a visit to Centro Demonstrativo de Sostenibilidad (Sustainability Demonstration Center) with Veronica Sheehan, its co-founder.

01/05/2017

Our visit to La Casa del Sol led us to agricultural apprentice Juan Arriago!
https://mucostarica.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/agricultural-apprentice-shares-knowledge-of-trees-conservation/

Article by Kathryn Cawdrey and Photo Gallery by Amanda Henderson LA BARBARA DE SANTA CRUZ, Costa Rica — Self-dubbed “agricultural apprentice” Juan Arriago Mora, 60, strolled through the diverse plo…

01/05/2017

New Year's Eve was celebrated well! It was an evening with tarantulas, birds and other wildlife in the Children's Eternal Rainforest.

By Holly Enowski MONTEVERDE, Costa Rica —With echoes of celebratory fireworks in the distance, the University of Missouri journalism crew coupled with muddy boots, bright flashlights and half-intri…

01/05/2017

Yesterday, our crew explored the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Click to read our short stories about the wildlife, plants, ecological connections and environmental functions found within the forest. Thank you to Mark Wainwright for the 5 hour adventure!

Editor’s note: Our group spent much of the day Tuesday (Jan. 3) hiking in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve with Mark Wainwright, a naturalist guide and author-illustrator of The Mammals of…

01/04/2017

Check out Nadav Soroker's pictures on his article at mucostarica.wordpress.com!

By Nadav Soroker OSTIONAL, Costa Rica — Early in the morning, while the sun is still struggling to rise over a low and verdant coast-scape, a cry on a bullhorn announcing the incoming arribada wave…

01/03/2017

Field reporter Jalyn Henderson shares the importance of the arribada in English and Spanish. Check out her broadcasts and article!

Editor’s Note: Arribadas are the mass nesting of olive ridley sea turtles on several beaches in the Western Hemisphere. The turtles come to shore once a month by the thousands and each lay up to 10…

01/03/2017

Check out mucostarica.wordpress.com as we begin publishing our stories covering the arribada at the Ostional Wildlife Refuge in Ostional Province, Costa Rica!

This is "Costa Rica Promo" by Liza Anderson on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

01/18/2015

Returning to the USA was a journey in and of itself, but we made it home safely!

On to the next story. Pura vida, Costa Rica!

Until next time.

01/15/2015

Experience through the lens, and written word, of our exceptional journalists at https://mucostarica.wordpress.com

MU journalism students head to Monteverde and Guanacaste Province