North Royalton, Ohio, resident Jennifer Giles to study in Baja

2016 Jul 1

North Royalton, Ohio, resident Jennifer Giles, a master's student in the Global Field Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Baja in July 2016. Giles will study the diverse desert and marine landscapes of two richly diverse biosphere reserves through ecological and social field methods.

Giles is an aquatics seasonal employee at Lorain Metroparks.

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

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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