April 2013
There have been reports of wildcats around the southern limits of the rainforest of the Soltis Center, specifically in the Eternal Rainforest of the Children. In order to monitor and have some photographic records of the presence of wildcats at the...
March 2013
For a four consecutive year, the TAMU MSC Fish program is visiting the Soltis Center, this time partnering with TAMU MSC FLI. As with previous years, students are participating in service projects with the local elementary and high school,...
For the first time ever, five students of the Organization “Aggies for Global Education” are visiting the Soltis Center and implementing a week-long engineering Camp with a local middle school. The main goal of this student organization...
The student voice of Texas A&M University, the Battalion Newspaper, featured on Tuesday March 5th what the A&M Chapter of Engineers Without Borders has been doing in Costa Rica in the last years. Two unique and highly impacting community...
February 2013
This last January 2013 turned out to be extraordinary dry if compared with previous years. Based on our records, we only had 31.0 mm of rainfall for January, as compared with the average of 333.8 mm registered in the three previous years for the...
We proudly announce the first record of the Panamanian Dwarf Boa (Ungaliophis panamensis K. Schimidt) at the Soltis Center, which was found on Monday Feb 4th 2013 during a night walk with a group of Texas A&M’s Environmental GeoSciences....
September 2012
Dr Gunther Kohler, Senckenberg Gesellschaft fur Naturforschung – Germany, who has studied the taxonomy, zoogeography and phylogeny of Neotropical Herpetofauna for many years, included in his recent book “Amphibians of Central America...
On Wednesday Set 5th-2012, at 8:42 am local time, the Institute for Seismology and Volcanology of Costa Rica reported a strong magnitude earthquake (7.6 Richter scale) located in North-Western Pacific area of the country, more specifically in the...
On Friday June 22nd, the Institute for Agrarian Development Commission for the Historic Center of Agrarian Reform of Costa Rica and the Regional Agrarian Theme Park created by Law 9029, held a working session to analyze and review the operational...
January 2011
In January 2011, students from multiple disciplines, spent two weeks in a creativity and innovation class known as Environmental Design (ENDS) 101. Led by Dr. Vanegas, Dean of the College of Architecture, ENDS 101 is a course intended to teach...