Charlestown, Mass., resident Kelsey Stone to study in Australia

2016 Aug 2

Charlestown, Mass., resident Kelsey Stone, a master's student in the Global Field Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Australia in August 2016. Stone will study coral reef ecology and the conservation of marine systems along the Great Barrier Reef.

Stone is an aerial observer and research assistant at New England Aquarium.

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

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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