BlogAbroad.com chronicles the adventures of four students as they study abroad.

Tammy is studying in Costa Rica on a program run by the School for Field Studies (SFS), which is accredited by Boston University. SFS "provides environmental education and conducts research through its field-based programs [and] is committed to providing hands-on, interdisciplinary education, and environmental research in partnership with natural resource dependent communities" (www.fieldstudies.org)..

As with most programs like the one Tammy is on, the School for Field Studies offers students the chance to experience a part of a foreign culture that they never would otherwise have the chance to see. Specifically, the SFS's Sustainable Development Studies program in Costa Rica focuses on "working to develop sustainable management models that protect the biodiversity of the country's ecosystems while promoting socio-economic benefit for its people. Students may study such topics as organic agriculture and protected area management strategies, with the importance of conservation evident in the splendor of the surrounding cloud forests, rainforests, volcanoes and beaches. Researchers may wish to collaborate with our faculty on topics pertaining to tropical ecology, sustainable development and resource management" (www.fieldstudies.org).

Tammy has been living in the natural habitat, interacting with the local Ticos, and finding out just how deep her love of the environment and ecology of Costa Rica really is. And because it is accredited by a major American school like Boston University, students can take part in the program with confidence.

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