[Coral-List] STRI Caribbean Sponge Course
Bob Thacker
thacker at uab.edu
Wed Nov 18 18:17:41 EST 2009
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Bocas Research Station
presents:
A SHORT-COURSE IN
TAXONOMY AND ECOLOGY OF CARIBBEAN SPONGES
Dates: July 20 to August 2, 2010
Location: Bocas Research Station, Bocas del Toro, Panama
Registration Fee: $600 (includes room and board, STRI registration fee,
etc.)
Some need-based fellowships are available
Instructors: Dr. Cristina Diaz, Museo Marino de Margarita, Venezuela
Dr. Robert Thacker, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Application: Please e-mail your CV, 1 letter of recommendation, and a 1-2
page statement explaining your background and reasons for taking the course,
to Rebecca Rissanen at RissanenJ at si.edu before March 1, 2010. Limit 12
students. To be considered for a need-based fellowship, applicants should
send a description of their need, their efforts to obtain funding from other
available sources, and a travel budget.
For more information see http://striweb.si.edu/taxonomy_training/
This course is supported by the National Science Foundation’s Assembling the
Tree of Life program under Grant No. 0829986 to R. W. Thacker: "PorToL - The
Porifera Tree of Life"
Apologies for cross-postings.
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Robert W. Thacker, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
109 Campbell Hall
1300 University Boulevard
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
voice: 205-934-4006
fax: 205-975-6097
email: thacker at uab.edu
http://www.uab.edu/uabbio/thacker.htm
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