Because Guatemala City is too dangerous to walk around with a computer in my backpack, I couldn't upload these pictures I took a couple weeks ago on our first trip to the Sierra de las Minas until just now.
The micrometeorological station in the pine-oak forest had lost contact with the university, so we had to move it to a location with better cell reception. After spending a day on that, we hiked 6 or 7 miles along a road damaged by Hurricane Agatha to the station in the cloud forest, where we installed a horizontal rain gauge and some other sensors.
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| View of a landslide from the pine-oak forest |
As of now, the plan is to return to the field at the end of this month to install the sap-flow sensors we're currently constructing at the Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala City. I'll stay in the field to download data and replace failed sensors for the months of March and May, returning to the capital or traveling during April
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| Wildflower in the pine-oak forest |
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| Seismological station used to triangulate disturbances throughout the country |
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| Dawn at the Guatemármol marble mine |
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| Road outage |
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| One of the broccoli-shaped oaks of the cloud forest and a Podocarpus, if I remember correctly |
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| Epiphytes. Every plant in the cloud forest is covered by more plants. |
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| Rosito and Drimys Granadensis, an ancient angiosperm with medicinal properties |
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| El atardecer |
