# Operation Wallacea informational presentation #### calendar\_today Date and Time **October 1, 2015** 05:00PM - 05:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **MCZ 101** Operation Wallacea is a biodiversity research and conservation management organization hosting scientific expeditions in Indonesia, Transylvania, South Africa, Madagascar, Peru, Guyana, Honduras, and Mexico. These research sites are run in remote locations with the help of university volunteers and academics from around the world. With a team of academics from across Europe and North America, Operation Wallacea ([www.opwall.com](http://www.opwall.com)) supports long term biodiversity monitoring projects as well as specialized research investigations at 24 sites in 11 countries. Students can join as Research Assistants (internship and credit options available) and receive training in different survey techniques such as mist-netting, SCUBA diving, GIS, camera-trapping, stereo-video transects of coral reefs, and much more. Students can also join as Thesis Students and collect data for a specific research project. Some of the research topics offered on site include marine ecology, agriculture, spatial ecology, genetics, herpetofauna, and environmental science. There is even a unique expedition for Pre-Med students looking to experience field medicine. Most importantly, all the research goes towards protecting valuable ecosystems by levering funding and monitoring the success of various conservation management strategies. To learn more about these research opportunities and conservation management programs, please come to the informational presentation that is happening at your university on Thursday, October 1st at 5:00PM in MCZ 101. The presentation will cover some of the more novel field techniques being used such as soundscaping for bird and amphibian diversity, stereo video surveys for reef fish communities, 3D mapping of reefs to measure rather than estimate coral communities, call back for estimating manatee populations, bar coding to speed up the identification of invertebrates and many other techniques as well as describing how these data are being used for REDD+ and Natural Forest Standard applications, estimating the impact of Reduced Impact Logging on biodiversity and other outputs. There are funding opportunities available from within our organization, and we also provide fundraising advice to volunteers in a follow up meeting that will take place at the university. If you are unable to make this meeting, please feel free to e-mail for more details. Hope to see you there! Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://scienceeducation.fas.harvard.edu/node/547661/event-feed.ics) Copy link link