Students to Join Habitat Restoration Efforts on Galapagos Islands

Beginning this week, Temple High School science students will embark on a research trip to the Galapagos Islands.
The Galapagos Islands are perhaps best known for the beginnings of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, but currently, Darwin’s finches aren’t the most popular animals on the islands.

“The Islands were actually named for the giant tortoises that live there,” said Jodi Bollinger, an International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement biology teacher at Temple High School.

She and Michael Marek, an advanced environmental science and chemistry teacher, are chaperoning 18 students on a scientific research and immersion trip through Ecology Project International to the Galapagos. Marek’s group leaves March 5. Bollinger’s group travels out on March 12.

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