Opwall Alumni

Welcome to Opwall Alumni!!!

This is a page for events and the news and views of Operation Wallacea staff and students past and present. If you have anything you would like to share with your fellow Opwallers then let us know by emailing caroline.acton@opwall.com

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Expedition comments

Jungle fun in Honduras- Caroline Acton

Please click here to view an article about the fundraising efforts of some of this years Canadian students.

Congratulations to Dan Lihou who received the 'Dissertation Project of the Year' Award from Manchester University. Dan conducted his research at our Honduran terrestrial site in Cusuco National Park and returned as staff this summer to help continue the social science research in Buenos Aires.

A visiting academic on the 2007 expedition to Honduras, Umberto Mendez, has published an article about Operation Wallacea and his time in Honduras. Click here to read the article.

You can now view documentary film reels by Dr Adrian Seymour, senior Civit scientist at our site in Indonesia, by following the link below.

http://www.adrianseymour.co.uk/Videos.htm

You can also view a short piece about coffee growing at;

http://eapblog.worldbank.org/content/customary-forest-coffee-growing-and-dancing-on-buton-sulawesi-indonesia

Congratulations to John Kosciuw who recently received post graduate a place at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. John joined us in Honduras in 2008 and is taking a year out before heading down under, good luck in Australia John!

Mary Chang joined our Honduran expedition in 2007 and has made a video of her experience. This can be viewed on Youtube now by clicking here

Our First announcement goes to Jennifer Riley. Jen produced the best dissertation in her year and was awarded a prize from her university after spending a summer at our marine site of Cayos Cochinos in Honduras. She has now gained a PhD offer at Southampton at the National Oceanographic Centre! Congratulations and good luck with the PhD!