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I was so upset when I heard Flower died trying to kill a Cape Cobra in the family burrow…I cried and then I went to Animal Planet’s website and started reading the forums.
I did not realize that you can actually sign up with Earthwatch.org and you can make a contribution, pick a continent and pick a research project to be involved with.
It isn’t cheap, but a large part of the money you pay goes to support the project you become a part of. This includes the Kalahari Meerkat Project. You can actually go an participate in Meerkat Research, or go work on Whale research, or Sea Turtle research, or Madagascar Lemur research….
Wow! How cool is this!!!! I want to go…maybe not this year, but in the future. I am going to look at going!
Here is the website…
http://www.earthwatch.org/site/pp.asp?c=dsJSK6PFJnH&b=386457
I actually went on one of the Earthwatch expeditions. I won a scholarship through them, and they sent me to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to dig up obsidian tools as part of an archaeological study out of the University of Nebraska. I was a cool experience, but now that I’m writing my own theses and doing the fieldwork… kinda boggles my mind that people would pay that much to go into the field to do that stuff! I suppose it just depends what side of the academic fence you sit on.
dark_zorse wrote:I actually went on one of the Earthwatch expeditions. I won a scholarship through them, and they sent me to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to dig up obsidian tools as part of an archaeological study out of the University of Nebraska. I was a cool experience, but now that I’m writing my own theses and doing the fieldwork… kinda boggles my mind that people would pay that much to go into the field to do that stuff! I suppose it just depends what side of the academic fence you sit on.
What is your major? What is your thesis topic? I would love to go do the whale project…:)
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