Martin, Tenn., resident Hillary Watson to study in Costa Rica

2015 May 29

Martin, Tenn., resident Hillary Watson, a master's student in the Global Field Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Costa Rica in summer 2015. Watson will study lowland rain forest and montane cloud forests while investigating the biotic, physical, and cultural forces that affect tropical biodiversity.

More information about Watson's 2015 course is located at http://earthexpeditions.org/costa_rica. (If link is inactive, please copy and paste the url into a browser window or visit http://www.earthexpeditions.org and click on Costa Rica.)

Since the program began 10 years ago, Project Dragonfly's Earth Expeditions graduate courses - on which the master's programs are based - have engaged more than 1,700 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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