Earthwatch Institute

Highlights

• Survey and observe birds. You'll check nest boxes set up by the researchers throughout the mountains, and learn to identify birds by their songs.
• Track biodiversity. On your long-hike days, you will take note of all the plants and animals you see and monitor camera traps set up by the researchers.
• Monitor small mammals. Keep an eye on the health of vole, mouse, and shrew populations by capturing them, collects measurements, and safely releasing them.
• Survey bats. On some evenings, you will walk paths and count all the bats you see or detect with special sensors.
• Assess vegetation. In preset research plots, you will measure trees and record the timing of natural events like fruiting and flowering.