Wake Forest, N.C. resident Michelle Amato to study in Guyana

2014 Apr 1

Wake Forest, N.C. (27587) resident Michelle Amato, a master's student in the Global Field Program (GFP) from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, will travel to Guyana in summer 2014 to study local wisdom and conservation.

More information about Amato's 2014 course is located at http://www.earthexpeditions.org/guyana. (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, Amato has also traveled to Baja to study field methods in desert and marine ecosystems. Amato has traveled to Australia to study the ecology of the Great Barrier Reef. Amato is a science teacher at Wake County Public School System / East Wake Middle School.

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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