News
International project to foster conservation of indigenous wisdom
Appeared January 8, 2012
Published in the Guyana Times Sunday Magazine
Imagine lifting off from Georgetown on a flight into the interior and peering out your window only to see green stretching to the horizon in every direction. Consider hiking through the lush Iwokrama Forest to the peak of Turtle Mountain where you watch spider monkeys bound through the trees below. Close your eyes….
Download the PDF article on indigenous wisdom and Guyana or visit the Guyana Times online.
Earning a Master’s Degree Can be an Adventure
Appeared September 20, 2011
Published on the Elkhart Community Schools website
“Never in a million years did I think I’d be getting my master’s degree by traveling around the world,” said Pinewood Elementary School’s Holly O’Connell. But that is exactly what the second-grade teacher is doing.
O’Connell and a student from Belize
Danae’ Wirth, first row on the left, and her Project Dragonfly colleagues, in Trinidad
Download the PDF article on O’Connell and Wirth and read the article on the web.
GFP student Jim Miller selected as PolarTREC teacher
Third year GFP student Jim Miller was selected as one of only 12 teachers to participate in PolarTREC (Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating), an educational research experience in which K-12 teachers participate in polar research, working closely with scientists as a pathway to improving science education.
Jim Miller shown inside a “pig,” a scrubber that helps clean the inside of the Alaskan pipeline
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Not an average day at Canfield High School
Appeared June 30, 2011
Published in The Canfield Town Crier
Continuing her master’s program studies, one Canfield High School teacher will be spending her summer in class, so to speak. “We’ll be sleeping under the stars and bathing in the Sea of Cortez,” she said.
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First radio-collaring of Bornean slow loris in wildlife sanctuary
Appeared July 18, 2011
Published in The Borneo Post
From Stephanie Stowell, Earth Expeditions Borneo II course instructor:
“Check it out! Borneo II EEers on the front page of the Borneo Post. The DGFC is getting a ton of press out of this first-ever collaring of a slow loris. Pretty cool to have been there when it all went down. Half of our group was out on a night hike with DGFC staff when the slow loris was spotted. One of the DGFC guys ripped off his shoes and scrambled up the tree to get him and brought him back to the lab. Everyone got a chance to see “Krik” in the lab and then they closed the door while they did all the measurements and fitted him with his new necklace. Pretty amazing experience….wanted to share!”
Download PDF article from The Bornean Press.
Miami University returns for their Global Field Program
Appeared June 2011
Published in “The Jungle Times,” independent newsletter of Danau Girang Field Centre
For the last 2 weeks in June, 2 groups of 20/21 students from the Global Field Program (GFP) visited DGFC for a field expedition focusing on Primate Conservation.
Download the PDF article from The Jungle Times. To see all back issues of the DGFC newsletter, please vist them online.
Cody teachers “inspired” by World Community Conference
Appeared January 21, 2011
Published online on the Park County School District #6 website
Ask any of the several hundred participants in the January 8, 2011 World Community Conference at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden what inspires them. Likely you’ll receive several hundred different answers – yet they all have something in common.
Download the PDF article on Gerber and Cappiello and read the article on the web