Allison Beard
  • Zoology
  • Class of 2014
  • Springfield, Ore.

Springfield, Ore. resident Allison Beard to study in the Amazon

2014 Apr 1

Springfield, Ore. (97477) resident Allison Beard, a master's student in the Global Field Program (GFP) from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to the Amazon in summer 2014 to study avian and tropical ecology.

More information about Beard's 2014 course is located at http://www.earthexpeditions.org/amazon. (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, Beard has also traveled to Belize to study approaches to environmental stewardship. Beard has traveled to Mongolia to study steppe ecology and civic media. Beard is a recreation leader and instructor at the River House.

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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