Today is our last day of field work at the Ferreira Penna Field Station in the Caxiuanã National Forest Reserve, and as it will be some time before we have all the data analyzed and written up, I thought I’d share some pictures and videos from the last ten days of ants and ant ecologists in the field.
Having spent the better part of two weeks moving down the Amazon River from Tabatinga to Belém, I’m now in the midst of the last 2-1/2 weeks of my year-long sabbatical leave, working on all things ants with my friend and colleague Rogério Silva at the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi. Rogério and I have been working on ecological similarities and differences between temperate and tropical ants. He’s visited me twice at Harvard Forest and now, with support from the Museum in Belém, I have an opportunity to learn first-hand about the ants of the Brazilian rainforest.
But first we have to get there.
