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The Pumé, Maya and Tanala projects involve opportunities in both the field and lab for undergraduate participation and graduate students pursuing their own research objectives. Interested students should contact me.
This past summer we built a research center in the Maya study community to facilitate training students in field methods and giving graduate students a residence and lab facility in the community. Student projects include opportunities for a variety of interdisciplinary research both in the field and lab.
Future projects with the Pumé will include students in field work to address a range of questions concerning ecological influences on biology, health and behavior. Especially appropriate for students will be the development of comparative field projects among the River Pumé. Lab projects include analyses of the nutritional constituents of common South American hunter-gather foods.
The Tanala project has a well-established research center (operated by Stony Brook University) where the socio-economic and demographic data collected during the three year project are housed. In addition to access to these data sets, students have opportunities to participate in applied projects concerned with public health, the effects of human activity on plant and animal communities, spatial modeling of biodiversity, and the study of sustainable subsistence practices within the framework of a well-studied environment.