Tinley Park, Ill. resident Michelle Sigler to study in Belize

2014 Apr 28

Tinley Park, Ill. (60477) resident Michelle Sigler, a master's student in the Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) from Miami University's Project Dragonfly and Chicago Zoological Society-Brookfield Zoo, will travel to Belize in summer 2014 to study approaches to environmental stewarship.

Sigler is a science teacher at Columbia Central.

More information about Sigler's 2014 course is located at http://www.earthexpeditions.org/belize. (If link is inactive, copy the url into a new browser window or visit www.earthexpeditions.org and click on the student's country name.)

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. Dragonfly's AIP master's program began in 2010 with the Chicago Zoological Society-Brookfield Zoo and Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. The program is now also offered at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Denver Zoo, Phoenix Zoo, San Diego Zoo Global, Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo and Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle).

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