Angela J. Costanzo recently completed her Master's degree in the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington,; her thesis project was a study on forest structure along the Quebrada Grande in Mastatal. She has been traveling and working in the Central American tropics for several years, and currently teaches biology at Hawai'i Pacific University, and also works with the Malama Na Honu Foundation on the North Shore of Oahu, an organization dedicated to Green Sea Turtle conservation.