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

Hope Town, Abaco resident Olivia Patterson to study in Costa Rica

2014 Apr 1

Hope Town, Abaco (0) resident Olivia Patterson, a master's student in the Global Field Program (GFP) from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Costa Rica in summer 2014 to study neotropical ecology.

More information about Patterson's 2014 course is located at http://www.earthexpeditions.org/costa_rica. (If course-specific link doesn't work, copy and paste the url into a browser window or visit www.earthexpeditions.org and click on the student's country name.)

As a student in the master's program, Patterson has also traveled to Baja to study field methods in desert and marine ecosystems. Patterson is program coordinator at Friends of the Environment.

Since the program began 10 years ago, Earth Expeditions graduate courses from Miami University's Project Dragonfly have engaged more than 1,500 people in firsthand educational and scientific research at critical conservation field sites in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas.

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