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Gabriel Joachim Wins Science Grand Prize |
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Written by Jeff Radford
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Sunday, 10 May 2009 |
A young Corrales biologist, fifteen-year-old Gabriel Joachim, was
awarded a grand prize at the N.M. Science and Engineering Fair earlier
this month.
He competes next month in the international science fair in Reno, Nevada.
His research project is on habitat for certain poisonous frogs in Costa Rica.
He has studied the frogs and their mico-habitat in Costa Rican
jungles over the past five years, while accompanying his mother, Lorna
Joachim, who teaches a course on primates at a biological research
center on Costa Rica’s Caribbean cost.
The frogs he studies, Dendrobbates auratus and Dendrobates
pumilio, are species from which poison darts for blowguns
are produced.
Frog populations worldwide are in decline, possibly due to climate and habitat changes.
The Cibola High student won the grand prize this spring after
taking first place in the animal sciences/zoology division of the N.M.
Science and Engineering Fair.
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