PHOTO GALLERY
LLU-Research and Teaching in Honduras
July 2004 - July 2007
Robert Ford, Stephen Dunbar and Students


First GIS/RS Workshop on Health Geoinformatics at UNAH National Observatory by LLU/Earth Portal Team - AGENDA (Spanish - DOC) - LLU-ESSE21 Project. Maria Cristina Pineda de Carias (Director).
Left-to-right: Maria Cristina Pineda de Carias (Director), Lee Greer- LLU graduate student, Robert Ford-Professor LLU/SST, Sam Soret-LLU/SPH Professor, Dr. Marco Medina, Neuroscience-Hospital Escuela Honduras, Timothy Foresman, EarthPortal (ManyOne) and ICRSE.
Jesse Bliss, Global Health student, Loma Linda University, with ferns in La Tigra National Park, along Las Golondrinas Ecotourism hiking trail above Valle de Angeles, Morazan, Honduras.


Boundary sign, La Tigra National Park, along Las Golondrinas Ecotourism hiking trail above Valle de Angeles, Morazan, Honduras.

Steve Dunbar & Cuero y Salado protected area guide and field research manager. Pico Bonito National Park and the highest peak in the background (July 2004).


Mini-Railroad access car to Cuero y Salado derailing.
This is the way you go to the ecotourism jump-off at Barra Salado and the new visitor center (July 2004). See maps HERE.


Director of Cuero y Salado Protected Area (RAMSAR)
wetlands site at main office in La Ceiba, Honduras (July 2004).
See maps HERE.


Main street of Garifuna fishing village west of Trujillo
(see FUCAGUA) NGO in Trujillo (July 2004)


Garifuna fishermen pointing toward "patch-reef"
location where they find still productive catch in the
Bay of Trujillo (July 2004).


Institute located at Anthony's Key Resort, Roatan, Bay Islands withwhom we will be coopeating for summer student research course (July 2004).

Steve Dunbar - Endangered bird preserve near Copan Ruins (July 2004)

Dead crododile found at Cuero y Salado - March 2005
Unearthing for curation of adult manatee buried for over five years at the Cuero y Salado preserve - March 2005.

Local ferry across estuary near mouth of the Montagua River west of Omoa near newly planned Jaloa protected area (March 2005).
Young manatee found dead at Cuero y Salado by wardens and wildlife managers - March 2005

Whale skeleton in Museum of Natural History at UNAH, Tegucigalpa Honduras - March 2005.
Iguana in trees at Paya Bay Resort - eastern Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras - March 2005

Main Lodge/dinning area of the Paya Bay Resort and Inn, eastern Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras - March 2005
Fantasy Island Beach and Dive Resort coastline near French Cay, south Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras - March 2005

Rob Lovich (left), Thomas Akre (center) and Carlos Vicente Mendoza (right) in January 2006 after trapping a Boa Constrictor (about 8 ft. long) in La Botija Protected Area, near San Marcos de Colon (Choluteca region) southern Honduras.
Walther Monje--Honduran biology student from UNAH--helping collect field GPS points for herpetofauna biodiversity survey conducted in January 2006 in Cerro Guanacaure. This was part of a survey done for the USAID/MIRA project.

Wife of Peace Corp volunteer--Hortencia Meyer--in San Marcos de Colon (southern Honduras) being introduced to local snakes by LLU-USAID/MIRA herpetofauna field research team.
Mother and daugher in village of Ceiba Mocha (outside Cuero y Salado) who have caught some "bushmeat"--a green iguana and armadillo. Near La Ceiba, north coast, Honduras.

Flooded Forest in Cuero y Salado Wildlife Reserve near site known as Cangrejo Azul, where a proposed field station is to be built (April 2007).

Some of the birds and aquatic plants seen in Laguna de San Jorge (Cuero y Salado Wildlife Reserve) on an excursion in April 2007. It is part of an "aquatic trail" in the reserve (see TRAILS MAP).

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