This is one of our main projects. Using interviews, social media searches, and boat-based surveys, we have been studying marine mammals in the Gulf of Mottama since late 2018. From our boat-based surveys, we have confirmed what coastal community members have told us in interviews: the Gulf of Mottama is home to Indo-Pacific Finless porpoises…
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Happy International Women’s Day! Gender Training materials here!
In February 2018, we gave a Gender & Natural Resource Management training for the IUCN Netherlands project, Shared Resources-Joint Solutions (SRJS), for 5 CSOs and also 2 CBOs working on natural resource management and environmental justice in Tanintharyi. Since it is International Women’s Day today, we are sharing our training materials! Please let us know…
Introduction to Project Design + Proposal Writing Workshop
On Dec 10-11, we conducted a training with the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund program in Myanmar, for members of 17 local environmental organizations. We enjoyed their active participation, and it was a good learning and networking experience for all! This is similar to our recent training on Developing Research Questions + Proposal Writing at Mawlamyine…
Training Announcement + Call for Applications: Water Safety Training, 17-18 December, for Mawlamyine University
Upcoming training: This 2-day course will train participants in the basics of water safety and basic swimming. These skills are important for anyone who would like to do research using boats, and are the first step in learning water skills that are necessary for snorkel and SCUBA diving-based research. The training will be held in…
Position Announcement: Junior Conservation Associate (Mawlamyine University)
Announcing an opportunity to be more involved with Myanmar Coastal Conservation Lab @ Point B Design + Training! The 6-month position of Junior Conservation Associate is similar to a student internship – up to 3 students (any level) from Mawlamyine University will be selected to be involved in research, training, and conservation campaigns. Please read…
Developing Research Questions + Proposal Writing
Last week (Nov 15-17), we had a 2.5 day workshop on developing research questions and preparing proposals, for faculty and students from Mawlamyine and Bago Universities. They brought great enthusiasm to the workshop! This was an introduction to both topics. More thorough follow-up would be needed to fully develop strong, final proposals, but we did…
Social-Ecological Research
We conduct research on diverse topics related to coastal conservation and management. Because human communities depend upon and affect natural resources, it is important for conservation and management to be informed by research not only on natural science, but also on communities. Currently, we are the team that conducts this research, but we are gradually…
Introduction to Marine Conservation Science
You can download the course presentations below. On February 1-4, 2017, we tested out the short course that we developed, Introduction to Marine Conservation Science, at Mawlamyine University, for students and interested faculty in Marine Science, Zoology, and Botany. While the topics covered in this short course include topics already included in the standard curricula,…
Who we are & what we do
The main goal of this website is to provide participants in our trainings with access to resources and information from our capacity-building work, and to share some of our research activities. For more regular updates, please follow us on Facebook! We are a group of young researchers and research trainers based at Point B Design +…
Introduction to Science Writing
In November 2017, we held our first Introduction to Science Writing training at Mawlamyine University. All materials are available to download below. This workshop was based on the Powerpoint presentation, but integrated interactive elements such as discussions and two main activities: Writing Map activity: Based on an open-access paper (Peckham et al. 2007, below), we…
Gulf of Mottama Project
Our main focus is currently our work with the Gulf of Mottama Project (GoMP). With GoMP, our main activities are research training at Mawlamyine University and Bago University, and interdisciplinary research on marine mammals and project impacts (through Most Significant Change evaluation). The Gulf of Mottama is a special place – it hosts extensive wetlands, which…
Myanmar Coastal Conservation Lab @ Point B Design + Training 