Seeking Adventure? Interested in Conservation?
On Thursday November 13th at 4:30pm in BSB 108 , 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.
Opportunities include:- Earning field biology credit 3R03/4J03, 2 weeks gets you 3 units
- Gathering data for undergraduate thesis’
- Learning to dive on an uninhabited tropical island among world class coral reefs
- Jungle trekking in pristine unsurveyed rain forests 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)
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!
If you can’t make this meeting or would like more information there will be a follow up meeting on Tuesday November 18th from 4:30-6:30pm in BSB 136.
For further details please visit
www.opwall.com and if you have further questions please contact the office either via e-mail at
[email protected] or by phone (905)-231-2095.
You can also ask questions through the Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/5786... 426678779904
