Marco

Nickname: Marco
Real name: Edson
Age: 23

Marco keeps the station up and running. He’s also in charge of turning off the generator (and thus the internet) every night; it’s the only one of his duties that doesn’t make our lives more comfortable. Marco builds and fixes everything from boats to plumbing to solar panels. He’s frequently seen hiking out to the stream to pump more water for us at whatever random, inconvenient hour it runs out—often in the middle of the night. Before coming to CICRA, he was an illegal miner. Before that, he worked on a coffee plantation.

Random fact: Marco plays a mean game of soccer. Not only does he run circles around almost everyone else on the field, but he’s known to pull off his shirt and throw it to get the ball. (We play by jungle rules here.)