Olivia Patterson
  • Global Field Program, Masters in Zoology
  • Class of 2015
  • Hope Town, Bahamas

Abaco, Bahamas, resident Olivia Patterson to study in Guyana

2015 May 29

Abaco, Bahamas, resident Olivia Patterson, a master's student in the Global Field Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Guyana in summer 2015. Patterson will study traditional ecological knowledge of the Makushi and the potential of local wisdom to guide conservation initiatives.

More information about Patterson's 2015 course is located at http://earthexpeditions.org/guyana. (If link is inactive, please copy and paste the url into a browser window or visit http://www.earthexpeditions.org and click on Guyana.)

Since the program began 10 years ago, Project Dragonfly's Earth Expeditions graduate courses - on which the master's programs are based - have engaged more than 1,700 people in firsthand educational and scientific research at critical conservation field sites in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. Dragonfly is located in the department of biology at Miami University, a state university in Oxford, Ohio. Miami was established in 1809 and is listed as one of the eight original Public Ivies.

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