Ushuaia
	The city of Ushuaia, taken from the air. Notice the small landing strip in the middle of the picture. This is the old runway, and pilots would have to take off and land before hitting the water on both sides of the runway. The city is sandwiched between the Andes mountains and the Beagle Channel. The population is ~50,000 and tourism is the major industry. Picture by Mike.
The central business district has many hotels, shops and restaurants that cater to the flow of tourists, most of whom use Ushuaia as a launching point for Antarctica. Picture by Callista.
	Another view of the city.
The city dock is where all of the passengers, freight, fishing and research vessels land. It is very expensive to tie up at the dock, so the turnover time between voyages is often quite short. Picture by Bob.
	The undergraduate research of two of the students on the trip was to be conducted while we were in Ushuaia. The foothills of the Andes Mountains start at the northern edge of the town. The class took cabs to the ski lift that would take us to the place where we would collect data. Picture by Bob.
The forest we visited is at the base of a "glacier." In the past the volume of ice was much larger, and today there are only patches of ice that last year round. Global climate change is the cause of the retreat of the glacier. Picture by Bob.
	The purpose of the experiment was to quantify the number of trees and their basal area at different elevations. This will then be used to estimate the change in the location of the tree line in respect to climate change. Picture by Elyse.
The only tree in these forests was the Southern Beech. The class broke up into three different groups. One of the groups sampled transects at 700m and 600m. That group was just below the current tree line. The second group sampled transects at 500m and 400m. Both of these locations were medium density forests. The last group walked along the new ski run where trees were recently cut and measured the age of trees by counting tree rings. This will later be correlated to the diameter at breast height (DBH) measurements that were also taken. Picture by Bob.