We will visit Nyungwe National Park and work in tropical montane forest. We will teach students how to identify the common plant families, genera, and species of the area, how to collect and preserve plant specimens, and how to set up vegetation transects to answer different types of ecological questions. This course will be co-taught by Paul Fine (University and Jepson Herbarium (UC) University of California, Berkeley), Emmanuel Chukwuma, Forest Herbarium, Ibadan (FHI) and Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria) Henry Ndangalasi (Botany, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)

and Aimee Sandrine Uwase (National Herbarium of Rwanda). All of the instructors have experience in tropical field botany and are excited to share what we know with each other and the students!