WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING NEXT SUMMER?
Seeking Adventure? Interested in Conservation?
On
Monday, September 21st at 6:30pm in MUMC-1A5,Dr. Justin Hines of the field research organization Operation Wallacea will be giving a presentation about opportunities available for students next summer. Choice of location includes the cloud forests and coral reefs of Honduras, the lush tropical rainforest and immense coral reefs of Indonesia, the rivers and estuaries of the Peruvian Amazon, the bush of northeastern South Africa, and the coral reefs of Cuba. For 2016, we are also excited to introduce Greece and the Bahamas to our list of research sites!
Opportunities include:
· Learning to dive on an uninhabited tropical island among world class coral reefs
· Jungle trekking in pristine unsurveyed rainforests seeking out species new to science
· Working on sustainable community development projects with the locals (Indonesia, Honduras)
· Surveying river dolphins, manatees, uakari and spider monkeys and macaws along the Peruvian Amazon
· Performing big game surveys and assessing bush habitat (South Africa)
· Earning field biology credits 3R03/4J03, 2 weeks gets you 3 units
· Gathering data for your undergraduate thesis
There are over 40 projects available for research assistants and over 150 individual research projects. So come to the presentation and hear more about what this exciting program has to offer!
For further details please visit our website
www.opwall.com and if you have further questions please contact the office either via e-mail at
[email protected] or by phone on (905) 231-2095.
