Global Field Program

1. Global Field Program

2. The Global Field Program (GFP) • Master’s degree candidates • Scientists • Educators • Community leaders • and others come together at conservation hotspots

3. Environmental Partnership • This program builds on the graduate courses and environmental partnerships of Earth Expeditions and the NSF funded Wild Research.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. Trinidad’s Flag

7. Blue-and-gold Macaw reintroduced by Bernadette in 1998

8. 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.

10. Butterfly Orchid

11. Blue and Gold Macaw

12. Caiman

13. Nariva Swamp

14. Anaconda Skeleton

15. Red Howler Monkey

16. Birdwatching Looking for the Macaws in Nariva Swamp

17. 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.

19. View of the veranda

20. View from the Birdwatching Veranda

21. Prince Charles and Camilla at Asa Wright

22. Parlor Dining Room

23. White-necked Jacobin Hummingbird

24. Bananaquit

26. Swimming Hole

27. Education Summit

28. Heliconia

29. Food!

30. 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.

31. Waterway in the Caroni Swamp

32. Cook’s Tree Boa

33. Grey Hawk Caroni Swamp

34. 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

35. Leatherback Hatchlings

39. Turtle Nesting Event Data Sheet

40. Plum MitanPresby School

41. Bernadette’s Girls

42. Maypole Dance

43. Conservation Awareness

44. A Different Frame Of Reference

45. Environmental Projects

46. Trini Boy’s Dream Ride!

47. My research partner was a little crabby

48. QUEST • Child-friendly way to conduct investigations using the scientific method • Inquiry method

49. ADK • This year’s course was sponsored by our organization!

50. Application Deadlines • Master's ProgramApplication Deadline Global Field Program (GFP) January 28