DANTA and Osa Conservation are delighted to announce that Dr. Karen Strier will guest lecture in our summer 2017 Primate Behavior and Conservation course to be held in the spectacular Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. Course dates are June 15 – July 10, 2017. For more information, please visit www.danta.info and/or email us at conservation@danta.info. Karen B. Strier is Vilas Research Professor
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My name is Seth and I am an Anthropology major at the University of California at Santa Cruz. As an aspiring Anthropologist, I have a keen interest in human evolution and our ancestors. More specifically, I’ve had an interest in studying primates for several years now. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to find outlets to pursue primatology as an undergraduate
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My DANTA Experience – Nicole Furgala University of Guelph, Zoology & Psychology For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to study animals. As a kid growing up, I would spend my summers catching frogs, then pretending to teach an invisible class about their structure and biology. This curiosity to understand the natural world is what led me
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Primates Watching Primates Sara Lucci, Anthropology, Ohio State University I kind of stumbled into the Primate Behavior and Conservation class. Other summer plans weren’t working out, so with the encouragement of my professors, I applied to DANTA. About two months and twenty trips to REI later, I was on an airplane to San Jose, Costa Rica. Each day started out
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I’ve known from the very beginning that I wanted to work with animals, and that regardless of where I ended up in life there would always be an animal sitting right beside me. Once in college, I narrowed down my carrier focus to working with primates. There are those pivotal decisions in life that curve pathways and redirect or change
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Wildlife Conservation and Sustainability Dates: August 2-17, 2017 Program fee: $2500 Application deadline: June 1, 2017 Location: Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica Sponsoring Organization: DANTA: Association for Conservation of the Tropics in collaboration with Osa Conservation and Planet Conservation Course Description The proximate and ultimate causes of declines of rain forest habitats and biodiversity will be examined through a combination of direct observations
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DANTA welcomes Eduardo Valverde to our teaching staff. He is a Costa Rican national and a graduate of the University of Costa Rica’s School of Architecture. In 2011, he created Batsu Architecture, a design studio with the main vision of promoting architecture deeply rooted in and respectful of nature, and based on the fact that unsustainable construction represents a major threat
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Primate Behavior and Conservation Dates: June 15-July 10, 2016 Program Fee: $3100 Guest Speaker: Dr. Christina Campbell Application deadline: June 1, 2016 For more information about the field course, please visit our website and/or email us at conservation@danta.info. Course Description This course is designed to provide students with field experience in primate behavior, ecology, and conservation. The course will be
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When I received my acceptance to DANTA’s Primate Behaviour and Conservation field course in Costa Rica last summer, I immediately surfed the web extensively on this country, (a nation slightly smaller than Nova Scotia, or for my American readers, West Virginia). Like any eager traveller, I wanted to know everything about this seemingly utopic, biologist’s mecca. Flanked on either side
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Each year DANTA offers a number of training courses in various aspects of tropical biology. Typically, the courses are one month long but shorter courses are also offered through our organization. The courses are intended for undergraduates or early graduate level students who have a keen interest in tropical biology and conservation, but have little or no experience of working
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