Trip Overview

From Mark Overholt ‘09…

Over Spring Break, we will travel to Panama to work with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). Our group includes our professor, Dr. Steven Dolins, and Bradley seniors Will Herring ‘09, Ed Gillen ‘09, and myself. We will visit the STRI team that we have been working with since September. We have been working on a Web application that will assist them in entering their rainforest data into a database. We will get better acquainted with the members of STRI, see the area where they collect the data, and work with them in refining the Web application to their needs. The last full day we are there, we will tour Barro Colorado Island. This island is located on one of the lakes in the Panama Canal. It is where some of the data is collected for the research that STRI does on rainforest trees.

We are all looking forward to the trip, and we also look forward to sharing our experiences with you. For more information on STRI, visit http://www.stri.org.