Dear All,

First all receive my best wishes for a Happy New Year
2003. I hope you've all spent some great holidays!

Secondly, just to remind you that today is the last
day for eary registration for our conference in Las
Palmas! Keep checking the conference web page as new
information appears frequently.

I thought the following course might interest you.

All the best!
cristina


> 
> Contact person is Helen Nearing <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> 
> Duke University Marine Lab summer course: Biology of
> Marine Mammals 2003
>   Summer Term II (July 7 - August 8)
> 
>   The Duke University Marine Laboratory invites
> applications to its
> summer field course on the biology of marine
> mammals. Topics covered
> include the ecology, behavior, management and
> conservation of marine
> mammals, with emphasis on field study of the local
> population of
> bottlenose dolphins.
>   This is a field and laboratory-intensive course
> designed to provide
> first-hand experience with research techniques such
> as
> photo-identification and mark-recapture analysis,
> sampling prey
> distribution and abundance, behavioral sampling
> techniques, acoustic
> recording and analysis, and dissection techniques.
> The course is taught
> by a distinguished faculty that includes Andy Read
> (Duke University) and
> John Reynolds (Eckerd College and Mote Marine
> Laboratory).
> 
>   A core course BIO 109/ENV 209 (Conservation
> Biology and Policy) may
> be taken with Marine Mammals. Students are
> encouraged (but not required)
> to take both courses. See
>  
>
http://www.env.duke.edu/marinelab/programs/summer2.html
> for more information about Term II's Integrated
> Marine Conservation
> Program.
> 
> Please submit an application and a current
> transcript. For
> application visit the Marine Lab's web site on line
>
(http://www.env.duke.edu/marinelab/admissions/forms.html)
> or send
> complete mailing address to
> [log in to unmask] The course is
> limited to 15 students.  Tuition scholarships are
> awarded on a
> competitive basis; the scholarship application
> deadline is April 1. If
> funds are available, full support for several
> international students
> (including travel and subsistence) will be awarded
> on a competitive
> basis for BIO 109/ENV 209 and one complementary
> elective, which could be
> Marine Mammals. Applications for these awards must
> be received by April
> 1. For more information, please contact
> [log in to unmask]
> (252/504-7502).


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Cristina Beans
PhD student
Laboratoire d'Oceanologie
Université de Liège, B-6 Sart Tilman
B-4000 Liège, BELGIUM
(32)4.366.3324
(32)486.730158

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