Biodiversity, Conserservation & Sustainable Development Field Course – Indonesia 2010
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Title: Biodiversity, Conservation & Sustainable Development Field Course – Indonesia 2010
Instructions for participants: here
Registration: Registration is Closed
Type: Field course
Venue: Alas Purwo National Park, Bali Barat National Park, Rinjani National Park, and Bali Botanic Garden
Dates: 25 July – 4 September 2010 (6 weeks)
Organiser: Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation Asia-Pacific chapter, University of Indonesia and University of Gajah Madah
Sponsors: Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change
Fellowships: Travel awards and fellowships to cover the course fees are available for participants from lower-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Preference will be given to participants who are presenting a paper (oral or poster) at the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation meeting (19-23 Jul) in Bali. A limited number of fellowships to cover the conference fees are also available.
Fees: $1500 (including domestic transport, food and accommodation)
About: During this six-week field course participants will study forest ecology, conservation biology and sustainable development through both resource staff led practicals and participant-led research projects. The course will be international in character with participants selected from across the Asia-Pacific region and a diverse pool of resource staff from both regional and local research institutions. In the current (tentative) schedule we propose to study biomes on either side of Wallace’s Line. The course will start at Alas Purwo National Park, East Java, which is predominantly comprised of dry seasonal forest over limestone. Here participants will receive an introduction to the study of different taxa and advanced phylogenetic and statistical methods. We will then move briefly to Bali Barat National Park, which harbours a diversity of forest types but predominantly seasonal evergreen forest, where participants will study conservation and sustainable development, before continuing to Rinjani, Lombok, a lower montane forest, to study plant-animal interactions. Participants will conduct short research projects (5 days) at both Alas Purwo and Rinjani. The course will finish at Bali Botanic Gardens where participants will analyse and write up their findings, which will be presented to an invited audience at a course symposium on 3rd Sep. Please see the detailed schedule given below.
Field course schedule
| Date | Time | Topics | Resource staff |
| 25 Jul | 08:00 | Travel to Alas Purwo National Park, East Java | |
| 19:00 | Introduction to APNP | Mr Hartono (Director APNP) | |
| 26 Jul – 9 Aug | Measuring / assessing biodiversity | ||
| 26 Jul | 08:00 | Plant taxonomy | Dr Ferry Slik (XTBG) |
| 09:30 | Plant collecting | Dr Ferry Slik (XTBG) | |
| 19:00 | Plant biodiversity and carbon | Dr Ferry Slik (XTBG) | |
| 27 Jul | 08:00 | Plant biodiversity | Dr Ferry Slik (XTBG) |
| 16:00 | Plant biogeography | Dr Ferry Slik (XTBG) | |
| 19:00 | Plant physiology | Dr Kung Fang Cao (XTBG) | |
| 28 Jul | 08:00 | Plant-environment associations | Dr Kung Fang Cao (XTBG) |
| 19:00 | IT instruction | Dr Cam Webb (Harvard) | |
| 29 Jul | 08:00 | Focal taxa | Dr Cam Webb (Harvard) |
| 19:00 | Introduction to arthropods | Dr David Lohman (CCNY) | |
| 30 Jul | 08:00 | Arthropod biodiversity and abundance | Dr David Lohman (CCNY) |
| 19:00 | Ants | Dr David Lohman (CCNY) | |
| 19:30 | Bees | Dr Rhett Harrison (XTBG) | |
| 20:00 | Herbivory | Dr David Lohman (CCNY) | |
| 31 Jul | 08:00 | Arthropod biodiversity and abundance | Dr David Lohman (CCNY) |
| 1 Aug | 19:00 | Introduction to bird diversity and abundance | Dr George Gale (KMUTT) |
| 02 Aug | 08:00 | Measuring bird diversity and abundance | Dr George Gale (KMUTT) |
| 19:00 | Bird behavioural ecology | Dr George Gale (KMUTT) | |
| 03 Aug | 08:00 | Bird behavioural ecology | Dr George Gale (KMUTT) |
| 19:00 | Large mammal ecology | Dr Satyawan Pudyatmoko (UGM) | |
| 04 Aug | 08:00 | Large mammal ecology | Dr Satyawan Pudyatmoko (UGM) |
| 19:00 | Student presentations I | ||
| 05 Aug | 08:00 | Introduction to Statistics using R | Dr Rhett Harrison (XTBG) |
| 19:00 | Biodiversity assessment for the tropics | Dr Rhett D Harrison (XTBG) | |
| 06 Aug | 08:00 | Assessing biodiversity and environmental gradients | Dr Rhett D Harrison (XTBG) |
| 19:00 | Student presentations II | ||
| 07 Aug | 08:00 | Assessing biodiversity and environmental gradients | Dr Rhett D Harrison (XTBG) |
| 09-13 Aug | Independent student projects I | ||
| 09 Aug | 08:00 | 20 Questions | Dr Rhett D Harrison (XTBG) |
| 19:00 | Project proposals | ||
| 10-13 Aug | Student projects | ||
| 14 Aug | 08:00 | Travel to Baluran National Park | |
| 15 Aug | 08:00 | Introduction to Baluran National Park | Dr Mochamad Indrawan (UI) |
| 19:00 | Conservation | Dr Adam Tomasek (WWF) | |
| 16-18 Aug | Conservation and sustainable development | ||
| 16 Aug | 08:00 | Conservation and sustainable development | Dr Mochamad Indrawan (UI) |
| 19:00 | Agroforestry in Indonesia | ICRAF | |
| 17 Aug | 08:00 | Sustainable development and biodiversity | ICRAF |
| 19:00 | Another lecture | ICRAF | |
| 18 Aug | 08:00 | Sustainable development and biodiversity | ICRAF |
| 19 Aug | 08:00 | Travel to Rinjani National Park, Lombok | |
| 19:00 | Introduction to Rinjani National Park | Mr Purwantono(Director Rinjani NP) | |
| 20-24 Aug | Animal-plant interactions | ||
| 20 Aug | 08:00 | Frugivory and seed dispersal | Dr Richard Corlett (NUS) |
| 19:00 | Frugivory | Dr Richard Corlett (NUS) | |
| 21 Aug | 08:00 | Frugivory and seed dispersal | Dr Richard Corlett (NUS) |
| 19:00 | Seed dispersal | Dr Richard Corlett (NUS) | |
| 22 Aug | 19:00 | Project proposals I | |
| 23 Aug | 08:00 | Pollination and co-evolution | Rhett D Harrison (XTBG) |
| 19:00 | Fig biology | Rhett D Harrison (XTBG) | |
| 24 Aug | 08:00 | Pollination and co-evolution | Rhett D Harrison (XTBG) |
| 19:00 | Project proposals II | ||
| 25-29 Aug | Independent student projects II | ||
| 30 Aug | 08:00 | Travel to Bali Botanic Gardens | |
| 31 Aug-02 Sep | Analysis and write up | ||
| 03 Sep | Course Symposium at Bali Botanic Gardens | ||
| 08:00 | Projects from Alas Purwo | ||
| 14:00 | Projects from Rinjani | ||
| 19:00 | Closing ceremony and dinner | ||
| 04 Sep | Participants return |
