Science students live the wildlife
12 October 2009
Nine final year students from the School of Natural Sciences & Psychology have undertaken a three-week tropical expedition to SE Sulawesi, Indonesia to study the rainforest and the coral reefs.
They conducted individual projects in each ecosystem on the ecology and behaviour of Macaque monkeys, butterflies, dung beetles, caterpillars, birds, plants, cleanerfish, damselfish, anemonefish, starfish and coral bommies.
The students lived with the local people and got to know their culture, lifestyle and concerns in life.
The Tropical Expedition Module is a third year module for Biology, Zoology, Animal Behaviour and Wildlife Conservation students and ran for the first time this year.
The module leader is Dr Simone Dürr (Lecturer in Marine Biology) and she was assisted in the field by Dr Julien Louys with technical support at Liverpool from Don Thompson.
The students who took part in the expedition were Natasha Bodenham, Nathan Booth, Gemma Brown, Megan Dowell, Kerry Langford, Alexandra Lee, Alexandra Makin, Rebecca Parker and Holly Shiels.
To read their thoughts about the trip, click here.
There are extensive galleries on Facebook showing photos of the trip. To see them, click here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8403&id=1783772945&l=01cf6f348f
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8399&id=1783772945&l=0bfe62c538
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8394&id=1783772945&l=2a3844f131
Photograph by Simone Dürr
