Personal Goals as a Director:
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Demonstrate leadership by promoting students’ personal growth, self-reflection, and mentorship
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Stay focused, efficient, and consistent
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Facilitate research and continuous learning
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Emphasize and implement adventure, environmental awareness, and healthy challenge
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Promote collaboration
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Create realistic timelines and meet established benchmarks
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Encourage open communication
Overall Biology Program Goals:
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Document biodiversity and research ecological interactions
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Develop and propose a continual, long-term ecological monitoring project
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Collaborate with other programs
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Improve overall sustainability
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Gain more experience and knowledge as a field biologist
Director Led Projects:
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Ecological studies on the farm
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Beekeeping- research and start a hive
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Soil testing
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Weather monitoring
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Develop a working greywater treatment plan
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Create and install species identification signs
Possible Student Led Projects:
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Random plot discoveries to study the surrounding jungle (species identification, density, habitats, interactions, food webs, abiotic environment)
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Begin a rainwater collection system
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Research innovative irrigation and composting methods
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Draft an Environmental Management System (EMS) for Kalu Yala
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Initiate an ornithology project
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Tree identification- build on already existing data