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2007
SUMMER ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD EXPERIENCES
Many
students take part in trips and field experiences each year. These
trips bring together students from various disciplines and are often
the highlight of a student's Miami experience. They
offer the opportunity to see, hear, and touch the lessons that we
are learning in a way that can't be easily experienced in the
classroom. Some courses follow the standard summer schedule;
most do not follow the regular summer terms. Registration and field dates
may change. Be sure to transmit your interest to the instructor.
May:
Environmental
Issues and the Miami Tribe
IES 499F/599F, (2 hrs.)
contact: Drs. Dolph Greenberg or Sandra
Woy-Hazleton
May 7-12, 2007 (in Oklahoma)
Miami Nation
Environmental Inventory Report (2006)
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Tropical Island
Archaeology: Field Laboratory Methods,
ATH 499A/599A (4-8 credit hours)
2006 dates: 5/12/06 - 5/27/05 or 6/09/06 (San Salvador, Bahamas)
contact: Dr. Perry Gnevicki
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Tropical Flora
of the Bahamas
BOT 499A/599A (4 cr hrs., also: approved as a capstone course ).
contact: Drs. Michael Vincent or James
Hickey
2006 dates were May 13-27 (in Bahamas)
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Sustainability
and Water Resources of East Equatorial Africa: Kenya
GLG/IES 499/599; 6 credit hours
contact: Drs. Jonathan Levy or Mark
Boardman
May 13-30, 2007 (in Africa)
Through actual natural-science
and social-science research, to better understand the complex relationships required
for sustainable resource and economic development in equatorial East Africa.
We will explore the quality, quantity and sustainable use of water resources
in rural, urban and national-park settings. Students will travel to different
parts of Kenya and experience water-use practices issues and problems first-hand
while being exposed to different perspectives and approaches to sustainable development.
This trip offers students personal engagement with sustainability issues in an
economically-developing nation.
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Birds Without Borders
IES/ZOO 499/599; 3 credit hours
contact: Dr. David Russell
2007 tentative dates: May 21 - 28 (in Oxford, Lake Erie, Mexico)
This course is coupled with a spring break workshop held in Mexico.
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Environmental Sustainability and
Risk Management (BUS 399)
Environment for Business in Latin America (BUS 420)
BUS 399 and BUS 420; 6 credit hours (take both)
contact: Dr. Glenn Platt or Dr. Saul Adelman
May 12 - June 9 (in Costa Rica)
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Tropical Ecosystems:
Costa Rica, (website)
GLG 412/512 (5 cr. hrs.),
contact: Dr. Hays Cummins or Dr.
Donna McCollum
2007 dates: May 19 - June 3, 2007 (in Costa Rica)
To better understand
the astonishing diversity of tropical ecosystems. Students in this course work
together to investigate the ecology and cultures of Neotropical Ecosystems: how
they were formed and how they are changing.
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Methods in Field
Ornithology.
ZOO 4xx/5xx (4 credit hours)
contact: Dr. David Russell
2007: summer I (in Oxford)
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Tropical
Marine Ecology - Florida Keys, Everglades, and
Bahamas (website)
Geology 413/513; 5 credit hours
June 10-June 24, 2007
contact: Dr.
Hays Cummins (9-1338)
Tropical
Marine Ecology is being offered to introduce students to the marine
environments of the Bahamas and Florida Keys. We will spend five days
in the Florida Keys and Everglades and 9 days on San Salvador, Bahamas.
Topics will be covered from an interdisciplinary perspective. Quite
simply, we will learn by doing! We will look, discuss, ask questions,
reflect, and look again! It is possible you will learn more in this
field course than you will in a semester back at Miami! |
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People
and Culture of Tibet
ATH 426/526 (6 credit hours)
2007 dates: June 7 to first week of July, 2007 (in Tibet)
contact: Dr. Homayun Sidky (9-1591) |
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Belize Ecology
and Natural History
Z00 499B/599B; 5 credit hrs
June 9 - 24 (in Belize)
contact: Dr. Donna McCollum (9-9386) |
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Culture and Environment of Brazil
ATH 426/526; BWS/LAS/IES 499/599 (6 credit hours)
June
15 - July 15, 2007 (in Brasil)
contact: Dr. Eric Minzenberg |
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Environmental
Chemistry
GLG/IES 499/599 (3 credit hours)
July 5 - 17, 2007 (in Oxford)
contact: Dr. Mark R.
Boardman
This
course combines lectures and field activities to examine
the chemistry of the environmental, particularly natural
waters and how water quality is measured in the field. Students
will attain functional capability in the use of field and
lab equipment. EPA regulations and standards will be presented.
Thermodynamic and mass-balance perspectives will be presented. |
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Coral Reef Ecology,
GLG 415/515 (5 credit hours)
Field: July 21 - 28 (in Curaçao, Netherlands
Antilles)
contact: Drs. Mark R. Boardman or Hays
Cummins
A field
course that examines coral reef ecosystems including its biology,
geologic setting, and chemical and physical characteristics.
It is designed for students who are SCUBA divers and interested
in the ecology of reef systems. We presume that you like the
outdoors and like warm, tropical water, and that you want to
see for yourself this magnificent ecosystem. Questions and
individual observations drive the course.
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