Bryan, Ohio, resident Caroline Ritchey to study in Mongolia

2016 Jun 3

Bryan, Ohio, resident Caroline Ritchey, a master's student in the Global Field Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Mongolia in June 2016. Ritchey will study the ecology of steppe ecosystems, with a focus on the Pallas' cat, Przewalski's horse and participatory conservation media.

Ritchey is a Intern Land Manager: Preserve Assistant with AmeriCorps at the Nature Conservancy, Moody Forest Perserve.

More information about Ritchey's 2016 course can be found at http://www.earthexpeditions.org. Click Mongolia.

Since the program began 12 years ago, Project Dragonfly's Earth Expeditions graduate courses - on which the master's programs are based - have engaged more than 1,850 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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