WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING NEXT SUMMER?

Seeking Adventure?    Interested in Conservation?

On Monday, November 15th at the Downtown Campus at 12:40pm in Brown Student Services Building (3600 McTavish), Room 5001; and at the Macdonald Campus at 4:00pm in Macdonald-Stewart Building, Faculty Lounge (MS2-022), 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, the desert & coral reefs of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt and the coral reefs of Cuba. For 2011, we are very excited to announce our new projects in Guyana
and Mexico!

Opportunities include:

• Learning to dive on an uninhabited tropical island among world class coral reefs
• Jungle trekking in pristine un-surveyed rainforests, seeking out species new to science
• Working on sustainable community development projects with the locals  (Indonesia, Honduras)
• Monitoring turtle nesting and behavioral patterns (Cuba, Peru)
• Surveying birds and reptiles at a World Heritage Site (Egypt)
• Surveying river dolphins, manatees, uakari and spider monkeys and macaws along the Peruvian Amazon
• Performing big game counts 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 talk and hear more about what
this exciting project has to offer!