Denver, Colo., resident Amanda Kludasch to study in Belize

2016 Jul 1

Denver, Colo., resident Amanda Kludasch, a master's student in the Global Field Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Belize in July 2016. Kludasch will study coral reefs, manatees, howler monkeys, jaguars and other wildlife while learning the methods communities are using to sustain them.

Kludasch is an outreach logistics specialist at Denver Zoo.

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

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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