photo: Rodrigo Sepulveda / EL TIEMPO
John Lynch, born in the United States, has been studying Colombian frogs for more than 20 years.
photo: Rodrigo Sepúlveda / EL TIEMPO
Extended News
Biologist found three new species of frogs in the "Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta", Colombia (article only in Spanish)
Biólogo halló tres nuevas ranas de especie 'escondida' que solo sale de noche EL TIEMPO, September 27, 2007
John Lynch professor and researcher of the Natural Science Institute at the Universidad Nacional, says they belong to the Cryptobatrachus family and only exist in Colombia and possibly in Venezuela.
photo: Rodrigo Sepulveda / EL TIEMPO
John Lynch, born in the United States, has been studying Colombian frogs for more than 20 years.
photo: Rodrigo Sepúlveda / EL TIEMPO
Funded PhD Studentship in: “Ex-situ conservation of tropical frogs”
A collaboration between Chester Zoo, Manchester Museum and the University of Manchester
Victoria Ogilvy has been offered and accepted the studentship in ex-situ management. She met or was interviewed by project supervisors representing all the partners listed above, plus Douglas Sherriff who she will working closely with at the zoo, and was the unanimous first choice. Her programme of research starts in September.
Some background: Vicky has a BSc (Hons.) in Zoology from the University of Glasgow (2004). Her final year project, supervised by Dr. Roger Downie, was on tadpole behaviour related to tail morphology and was of a standard to form part of a publication published in the Journal of Morphology. She also has a MSc. with Distinction in Biological Photography and Imaging from the University of Nottingham and is currently employed as a Strategy and Communications Officer for Scottish Natural Heritage.
Dr. Andrea L. Fidgett
Nutritionist
North of England Zoological Society
Chester Zoo, Upton, Chester, CH2 1LH, UK
Tel +44 (0)1244 650295 / Fax +44 (0)1244 381352
Book on the Glass frogs of Costa Rica, Libro de las ranas de vidrio de Costa Rica
by Brian Kubicki
(spanish also, see below)
Hello Everyone,
My book on the Glass frogs of Costa Rica was recently published through the National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio) of Costa Rica . Like most INBio books it is in a Spansh/English format. It contains just over 300 pages and 190 color photos. All the photos included in the book were taken by myself, except of course for the one of me that my wife took. This book represents a large part of the last 12 years of my life, and the reason I moved to CR nine years ago.
2000 soft-covered and 100 hard-covered books were produced.
In Costa Rica soft cover copies are available at bookstores that carry INBio titles, INbio, or through myself. For anyone interested in obtaining a hard copy please contact me personally. For people outside Costa Rica please contact my mother in the U.S. via www.cramphibian.com
I am sending a pdf of the book cover.
And keeping with the subject matter I am also sending an additional pdf of a recent publication through the journal from the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (Brenesia) on the rediscovery of Hyalinobatrachium talamancae in Costa Rica . The article is from the September of 2006 issue, but just came out last week.
I hope you all are doing well.
Thank you,
Brian Kubicki
(Spanish)
Hola a todos,
Mi libro sobre las ranas de vidrio de Costa Rica recientamente fue publicado por el Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad de Costa Rica (INBio). Como la mayoria de los libros publicados por INBio este viene en un formato bilingue (Español/Ingles). El libro contiene poco mas de 300 paginas y 190 fotos a color. Todas las fotos incuidas en el libro fueron tomadas por mi. Este libro representa la gran parte de mi vida durante los ultimos doce años, y es la razon por la que yo vine a Costa Rica hace nueve años.
2000 libros de portada suave y 100 de portada dura fueron producidos.
En Costa Rica los libros de portada suave estan de venta en las librerias, en las cuales INBio distribuyen sus libros. Para los interesados en obtener una copia de libro de portada dura contactarse conmigo personalmente, o con mi pagina de web www.cramphibian.com.
Aqui les envio un pdf de la portada del libro.
Ademas les envio un pdf adicional de un articulo receinte publicado por Brenesia (revista del Museo Nacional de Costa Rica) sobre el redescubrimiento de Hyalinobatrachium talamancae. El articulo es de la edicion de Septiembre 2006, pero a penas fue publicado hace unos dias.
Espero que todos esten muy bien.
Muchas gracias,
Brian Kubicki