During October, Dr. Ed Stashko, Vice-president for Global Programs of the Organization for Tropical Studies, will visit Chile in a project co-sponsored by OSARA and the US Embassy. While in Chile, Dr. Stashko will visit the major universities and field sites that constitute the partnership of organizations conducting research in the Chilean subantarctic archipelago. In addition to advising OSARA and others in their alliance-building initiative, Dr. Stashko will offer a talk and panel discussion at the American Academy in Santiago on “Capacity Building for Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation”, which will include Drs. Juan Carlos Castilla, Mary Kalin and Ricardo Rozzi as discussion panelists.