Seattle, Wash., resident Sarah Weitz to study in Guyana

2016 Aug 2

Seattle, Wash., resident Sarah Weitz, a master's student in the Global Field Program from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Guyana in August 2016. Weitz will study traditional ecological knowledge of the Makushi and the potential of local wisdom to guide conservation initiatives.

Weitz is an animal research technologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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

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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