Chicago, Ill., resident Emma Martell to study in India

2016 Jul 1

Chicago, Ill., resident Emma Martell, a master's student in the Global Field Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to India in July 2016. Martell will study the ecological, cultural and spiritual landscapes of the Western Ghats, where the fates of people, wildlife and deities meet in sacred groves and forest temples.

Martell is an education manager at Lincoln Park Zoo.

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

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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