Bricken Sparacino
  • Class of 2016
  • New York, N.Y.

New York, N.Y., resident Bricken Sparacino to study in the Amazon

2015 May 29

New York, N.Y., resident Bricken Sparacino, a master's student in the Advanced Inquiry Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly and Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo, will travel to the Amazon in summer 2015. Sparacino will study how communities are working to save this astonishing and irreplaceable ecosystem.

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

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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