Field TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday March 6th
(leave school around 10:30am and get back around 3 pm)

COP 15: What is the Impact on Malaysia and South East Asia?

*This event is part of the Art For Grabs March 2010 events program
*Public Lecture; Sat 6 Mar, 12pm


-Presented by US Embassy Public Affairs Office & The Annexe Gallery, with support from Central Market AnnexeAdmission FreeInvited speaker Dr Myron Shekelle, conservation biologist and directorof Tarsier.org, will discuss the Copenhagen Summit and what he thinks the intended effects are for cooperation between the United States and Southeast Asian nations, notably Malaysia. In line with this, he will discuss how his experiences in the region have illuminated some potential solutions, and many of the very real pitfalls, for foreign-sponsored, collaborative biodiversity research and conservation in Southeast Asia.”




ABOUT THE SPEAKER;
Myron Shekelle received a BA with departmental honors from the University of California (UCLA) in 1991. He was then awarded a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship and attended Washington University in St. Louis, where earned an MA (1993) and a PhD (2003). He was awarded a National Science Foundation International Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and was based at the University of Indonesia. Subsequently he was a teaching fellow at the National University of Singapore within their flagship undergraduate educational institution, the University Scholars Program, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biological Sciences. With more than 10 years of experience living and working in Southeast Asia as a professional conservation biologist, he returned to the USA in 2008 to found his own science-based conservation organisation, Tarsier.org


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