Dear Colleagues, I would like to announce the 3rd annual Primatology, Wildlife Ecology, and Conservation Field School which will be held from August 1st - 28th, 2009 in Kenya. This field school is a joint effort of Rutgers University, the National Museums of Kenya, and the Kenya Wildlife Services. Please share with interested undergraduate and graduate students.
The field school provides a distinctive opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience in field work methodologies and research on some of Kenya's exquisite wildlife including a variety of Old World primates. One site we will visit is the Tana River Primate National Reserve where students will conduct field work and observe yellow baboons, vervet monkeys, as well as two endemic and endangered species, the Tana River mangabey and the Tana River red colobus. We will also spend time on the Laikipia Plateau of central Kenya. At the different sites where we camp, students will receive lectures, complete readings and have discussions from the field school directors as well as a wide range of consultants to the program from places like the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, the African Wildlife Foundation, and Princeton University's Mpala Research Station. In addition, we will stay on Mugie Ranch where we are conducting a systematic vegetation study. We also have the opportunity to visit the rhino sanctuary and are privy to the data collection lab. We will observe radio-collared lions and all the other wildlife of the savanna ecosystem. Students will also do field work all in the course of a day, making the field school worth 6 academic credits. To obtain more information about this program, contact Dr. Jack Harris, Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University ([email protected]) or me ([email protected]). You can also visit the Rutgers Study Abroad web site at studyabroad.rutgers.edu <http://studyabroad.rutgers.edu/> . Thank you for your time. Cheers, Julie Julie Wieczkowski, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology CLAS B101 Buffalo State College 1300 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14222 716.878.6424 (ph) 716.878.4009 (fax) [email protected]
