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Global Field Program. The Global Field Program (GFP). Master’s degree candidates S cientists Educators Community leaders and others come together at conservation hotspots . Environmental Partnership.
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The Global Field Program (GFP) • Master’s degree candidates • Scientists • Educators • Community leaders • and others come together at conservation hotspots
Environmental Partnership • This program builds on the graduate courses and environmental partnerships of Earth Expeditions and the NSF funded Wild Research.
Trinidad • Humans and their environments • Wetlands & coastal ecology • Establishing participatory conservation programs • Species reintroduction and ecosystem restoration • Community-based environmental education and action • Curricular development and educational leadership • Inquiry-based learning • Participatory education
Bernadette-Project Leader • Dr. Bernadette Plair, a scientist with the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden's Center for Conservation Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW), • Leading a collaborative effort to return blue-and-gold macaws to Trinidad • Where they had been wiped out because of illegal trapping for the pet trade and habitat loss from logging and agriculture.
Nariva Swamp • East Coast of Trinidad • Designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention. • home to manatees, • red howler monkeys • white-fronted capuchin monkeys • three-toed and silky anteaters, and a wide variety of birds. • blue-and-gold macaws have been reintroduced to Trinidad.
Birdwatching Looking for the Macaws in Nariva Swamp
Asa Wright Nature Centre • Tropical Research Facility • Located in mountains of the Northern Range of Trinidad. • Known worldwide as a birdwatcher's paradise, • 159 species of birds • oilbirds • oropendolas • Manakins • Orange-winged parrots • blue-crowned motmots • ornate hawk-eagles • channel-billed toucans. • This tropical research facility is also home to an ecologically rich diversity of flora and fauna.
Parlor Dining Room
Caroni Swamp National Park • Located on the Northwest Coast • tidal lagoon marshland • mangrove forests • tidal mudflats. • Trinidad's national bird, scarlet ibis • 19 other endangered bird species nest and roost here. • Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention.
Grey Hawk Caroni Swamp
Matura Beach • on the East Coast of Trinidad • one of the five most valuable nesting rookeries worldwide for the endangered leatherback sea turtle • Nature Seekers, Inc., a local community-based organization, is working to help save this endangered species
QUEST • Child-friendly way to conduct investigations using the scientific method • Inquiry method
ADK • This year’s course was sponsored by our organization!
Application Deadlines • Master's ProgramApplication Deadline Global Field Program (GFP) January 28