[Envstudies-list] FW: The Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology

[Stevenson, Chris]

A graduate school that might interest some of you on this list. (You can
tell I've been saving messages until I got the listserv up and running,
sorry about that.)

 

 

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Chris Stevenson, PhD

Assoc Professor of Chemistry

Coordinator, Environmental Studies

University of Richmond, VA 23173

From: admin at itme.org [mailto:admin at itme.org] 
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:37 AM
To: Stevenson, Chris
Subject: The Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology

 

Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology (ITME)
Call for Applications
Summer and Fall 2008

27 March 2008


Dear Dr. Stevenson, 

My name is Sascha Steiner. I am a marine biologist with over 20 years
experience in the Caribbean, and director of the Institute for Tropical
Marine Ecology. Located on the Eastern Caribbean island of Dominica,
ITME has been in operation since 1999. It serves as field station for
scientists and university groups, and offers research-oriented academic
programs in marine ecology and conservation.

I would like to thank you for your continued support in passing along
our course announcements. ITME is a small institution and relies heavily
on word-of-moth advertising. We are currently gearing up for our fall
semester and I would greatly appreciate if you could circulate this
message among your interested students and graduates.

We are currently calling for applications to our 4-week Summer program
and our Fall Semester 2008. In this intensive 12-week program of
approximately 260 structured academic contact hours, students engage in
4 courses (AC 301: Natural History and Identification of Marine
Organisms, AC 302: Principles of Tropical Marine Ecology, AC 303: Marine
Research Methodology, and AC 304: Marine Resource Conservation). These
courses provide the training for applied research projects in which each
student participates. 

Our programs change from year to year and the research that students are
engaged in is not a mere academic exercise, but an issue-driven set of
questions relevant to the conservation of Dominica's coastal marine
environment, resource users and policy makers. Results are presented at
public hearings with coverage from local media outlets. Over the years
students have thus built a commendable database which has most recently
been "translated" into our new interactive website
www.itme.org/marinehabitats

ITME has earned the trust of Dominica's environmental entities and all
our reports are shared with these institutions. So students are engaged
not only in the nuts-and-bolts of field research, but also in the
dissemination of their findings. We are deeply committed to in-depth
research training and provide this opportunity during our 12-week fall
program. This fall we are building on the large-scale habitat mapping
efforts of last year with a focus on revisiting existing marine species
inventories. 

Also, please note that ITME is proud to host the 34th Scientific Meeting
of the Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean (AMLC) in May
2009. This will be a great opportunity for ITME students (Fall 08) to
return to Dominica and present their findings.

I would appreciate your assistance in passing on this information to any
student that may be considering graduate school in an environmental
field. We have found that these are excellent candidates for our fall
program, as well as students who have already earned a Bachelor's degree
and seek an applied research experience prior to starting graduate
school. If you know of such students, please pass along this email to
them. 

For those who cannot commit to a full semester, the 4-week Summer
Program (AC 305: Tropical Marine Ecology and Conservation, AC 306:
Caribbean Issues of Resource Management) offers an excellent
alternative.

Interested students should contact Mary Akers (Director of Admissions)
at admissions at itme.org

Thank you very much,


Dr. Sascha C.C. Steiner
Marine Biologist, CEO ITME Inc.
Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology
ITME Inc., P. O. Box 944, Roseau
Commonwealth of Dominica
(West Indies)

ITME HQ Dominica
Phone: (767) 449 3725
Fax: (801) 504 4369
E-mail: admin at itme.org (for institutional collaborations)
E-mail: fieldstation at itme.org (for reservations & station info)
Web Site: http://www.itme.org

 

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