Offered from May 16-28, 2010, Species Monitoring and Conservation: AMPHIBIANS provides an unparalleled professional development experience. This graduate/professional course is co-sponsored by the Smithsonian's Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability and the George Mason Center for Conservation Studies and hosted at the National Zoo's 3,200-acre Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia. This course engages graduate students and practitioners in developing skills, approaches and solutions applicable to the worldwide extinction crisis affecting amphibians. Course participants explore the many tools and techniques for in-situ and ex-situ amphibian research and conservation practice. The curriculum includes amphibian biology and ecology, habitat monitoring and management, species monitoring plans, field techniques and collection methods, lab techniques (including toxicology, pathology, specimen preparation and genetics), captive breeding and husbandry, and community outreach and education. Graduate credit may be earned through George Mason University. Contact [email protected] for more information.
Graduate and Professional Course: Species Monitoring and
Conservation: AMPHIBIANS
