The goal of this field course is to provide students with an applied and active learning experience in the Tropics through a mixture of interdisciplinary fieldwork, service-learning, and environmental/cultural engagement.   Students will directly engage with rural communities through integrated fieldwork and service projects, gaining hands-on experience in social science field research (participatory photo mapping), environmental engineering fieldwork (water quality monitoring), and field ecology techniques (monitoring cloud forests and avian biodiversity).  Together, the group will work to weave together these three fieldwork efforts into a more comprehensive understanding of climate change impacts at the forest-water nexus as it is represented in the Monteverde region in Costa Rica.