My fieldwork is based primarily in Southeast Asia and I expect this will continue
to be the case for the foreseeable future. Together with colleagues at the University of Kansas (Rafe Brown), McMaster University (Ben Evans), and top Indonesian scientists at the University of Indonesia (Drs. Jatna Supriatna and Noviar Andayani), the Bandung
Institute of Technology (Dr. Djoko Iskandar), and the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense (Mumpuni, Awal Riyanto, and Amir Hamidy), I have a long-term program focused on reptile and amphibian biodiversity sampling
on Sulawesi and adjacent Islands of eastern Indonesia. This work is currently
funded by the National Science Foundation.
Our team has been working for years in Malaysia, the Phili ppines, and Indonesia,
and the samples collected on those trips, together with the samples we envision
collecting via our Sulawesi project, will serve as the basis for
large-scale biogeographical studies of Southeast Asia. Given my interest in
the region and current funding, I am happy to have students participate in Southeast
Asian field surveys and to develo p associated research projects. However, such
participation is by no means expected. If you do have a taste for remote field camps,
don't mind being stranded by the occasional rampaging river, like sharing the deck of your overnight ferry with the odd water buffalo, and can run faster than a tiger, fieldwork in
SE Asia might be for you! |
