The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Bocas del Toro Research Station
presents:
TAXONOMY AND ECOLOGY OF CARIBBEAN SPONGES
Dates: July 16 – 30, 2012
Location: Bocas Research Station, Bocas del Toro, Panama
Registration Fee: $800 (includes room and board, STRI registration fee, etc.)
Some need-based fellowships are available.
Instructors: Dr. Cristina Diaz, Museo Marino de Margarita, Venezuela
Dr. Robert Thacker, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Application: This course is directed towards advanced international graduate
students, post-docs,
and young investigators, and will be conducted in English. Please e-mail your
CV, 1 letter of
recommendation, and a 1-2 page statement explaining your background and reasons
for taking
the course, to Rebecca Rissanen at [email protected] before February 1, 2012. To
be considered
for a need-based fellowship, applicants should send a description of their
need, their efforts to
obtain funding from other available sources, and a travel budget.
For more information see
http://www.stri.si.edu/sites/taxonomy_training/index.html
This course is supported by the National Science FoundationÂ’s Assembling the
Tree of Life program
under Grant No. 0829986 to R. W. Thacker: "PorToL - The Porifera Tree of Life"
Apologies for cross-postings.
