Subject: Research Opportunties in Sulawesi, Indonesia
You might want to look at the e-mail below and the associated web page, especially if you are field oriented.
There are some interesting projects in ornithology, mammalogy, botany, herpetology, ichthyology, entomology, etc listed on the web page. If you want to try to get something up and going, I will be glad to make further contacts with Operation Wallacea.
Dr. D. Noakes
>Reply-To: "Operation Wallacea" <crispin@opwall.com>
>From: "Operation Wallacea" <crispin@opwall.com>
>To: <dbechler@valdosta.edu>
>Subject: Research Opportunties in Sulawesi, Indonesia
>Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 12:55:39 +0100
Professor Bechler am writing to ask whether you or any of your colleagues would be interested in developing a field research project in Sulawesi with the Operation Wallacea organisation, for the 2002 summer vacation period.
Operation Wallacea (www.opwall.com) is an organisation which for the last 6 years has been running research projects with academics (mainly from the UK to date) on different aspects of the flora and fauna of the rainforests and reefs of SE Sulawesi as well as community development projects.
In February this year I visited a few Universities in the USA to gauge whether there would be interest amongst students and academics in extending this programme to American students.
The response I received was very positive and we have therefore decided to offer the opportunity for 10 additional field projects to be run in 2002 which will be developed with American academic institutions.
In the 2001 season there are 52 projects being run under the Operation Wallacea programme in SE Sulawesi. These projects are funded from the payments made by student volunteers who join the programme, either to gain short periods of experience on a range of forest and reef research projects, or who specialise in one aspect of the programme and complete an individual research project for their final year Honours thesis.
Those projects selected for the programme are funded by Operation Wallacea and the researcher has all their field costs funded (food, accommodation, transport around the sites, use of equipment, visa costs etc) in exchange for designing the project in such a way that students can actively participate in the research. In addition the researcher is required to produce at least one paper for submission to a peer reviewed journal as a result of the field work.
The only costs the researcher has to pay are the air fares to Ujung Pandang and funding for these can often be found from the co-operating University. Preference is given to those projects which establish a long term programme with field visits over a number of seasons.
If you are interested in this idea I would be grateful if you would let me know what projects you would like to pursue.
If you have a look at our web site (http://www.opwall.com/main_projects1.htm) you will see the format for the summary research proposals and then click on 'project details' and that will take you to a more detailed project description.
We would like any project proposals you would like to propose submitting in this format no later than 31 August 2001.
I am intending to visit various east coast Universities in January to March 2002 to give slide presentations about the research to date on the Operation Wallacea programme. I would very much welcome the opportunity to give a presentation to your undergrad students during this visit. Would this be possible? All the best and I look forward to hearing from you.
Dr Tim Coles Project Director, Operation Wallacea
Students: Dr. Noakes brought this to my attention .
Created: May 25, 2001
marie Thérèse Rush