RIEL seminar series
After the volcano: building a field station in Montserrat, West Indies
| Presenter | Dr Sarah J. Snyder | |
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| Contact person | E: riel.outreach@cdu.edu.au | |
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Yellow 1 level 2 room 48 at CDU Casuarina Campus And online via Zoom (see below for Zoom link) All times are ACST |
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| Open to | Public | |
Dr Sarah J. Snyder is Associate Professor of Biology at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in the United States of America.
Montserrat is a small British Overseas Territory in the Lesser Antilles with an active volcano which began erupting in 1995. For its size, Montserrat supports a wide range of habitats and many island endemics, making it an excellent location for ecological research. In 2023, Bard College at Simon’s Rock purchased a property which has been converted into a field station to support student programs and researchers worldwide.
In the seminar ‘After the volcano: building a field station in Montserrat, West Indies’, Sarah will introduce the unique ecology of Montserrat (including the impact the volcano has had on the island), explain how a small college in Massachusetts came to build a field station in the tropics, and present some of the research that she and her colleagues have conducted on the island.
Sarah’s research primarily focuses on the conservation of reptiles and amphibians. She involves undergraduate students in conducting meaningful ecological research by incorporating projects from research networks into her courses. She has been teaching at Bard College at Simon’s Rock since 2014.
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