Zostera:

The Costa Rica Experience looks like a great program. It offers an interdisciplinary immersion in natural science and other topical areas in a very interesting environment. I wish my high school had provided us with opportunities such as this one during my student days there.

In addition to the nice set of photographs in your posted message, you have embedded additional ones within the accompanying kmz file in order to include them in some of the placemark descriptions. I also prefer to embed images in kmz files rather than hyperlink to ones stored independently on a server, so that they are guaranteed to travel reliably with the verbal content. One necessary but minor caveat, though, is that when placemarks eventually become incorporated into the Google Earth Community layers, the embedded photographs are not included. See this post. On the other hand, many schools block specific web sites, including ones that host images, therefore hyperlinked images may appear as gray rectangles within the placemark bubbles, when viewed at those schools.

The students visit a great variety of locations during their stay in Costa Rica, which must be great fun. With the program's busy travel itinerary, are they afforded sufficient time to collect and analyze data in connection with their research projects?