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…
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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…
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…
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,…
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…
Myanmar Coastal Conservation Lab @ Point B Design + Training 