Are you seeking fieldwork research experience? Are you interested in conservation?
On Monday October 16th at 3pm in Biodiversity room 224, Philippe Fernandez of the field research organization Operation Wallacea will be giving a presentation about opportunities available for undergraduate students during the summer of 2018. Operation Wallacea works in many countries, giving research assistants a wide choice of locations including 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 unique landscape of Madagascar and the river valleys and Adriatic Islands of Croatia.
While assisting researchers on their surveys of various animal groups, 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)
- Studying lemurs and chameleons in Madagascar
- Working in the Great African Rift Valley on lake ecology surveys and conservation research in Lake Malawi
There are over 40 projects available for research assistants and over 150 individual research projects. 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 philippe.fernandez@opwall.com or by phone on (514) 291-0825.