I'm not sure if this is the proper forum but, you've been a great help in
the past. We have a field site associated with our University that we
use for Biology field classes and in recent years various Department on
campus (Engineering and Agriculture) have come into some grant money and
been able to squirrel away small parts of the Biology Station. A
proposal has just been submitted that would turn the whole area into an
aquaculture site, ie. a giant fish farm. They are likely to get funding
for the project in which case we will lose our field site. We are trying
to counter their proposal by writing a grant to use the site for the
following four purposes:
1. Offer biodiversity field courses for high school and
elementary teachers.
2. Allow high school teachers to use the site to teach
biodiversity related topics.
3. Teach university courses in biodiversity.
4. Use the station for teaching elderhostel classes.
Can anyone think of any sources of funding that may support development
of courses such as these? If we can't come up with a counter project to
the fish farm, we will loose the area for teaching our classes.
I'm sorry this is not very clear or as thought out as it should be but,
we found out about the project yesterday and the meeting to discuss the
fish farm is today so, we are really in a rush. If anyone has any words
of wisdom, we would appreciate them!
Cyndy
Cynthia M. Galloway, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biology
Campus Box 158
Texas A&M University
Kingsville, TX 78363
(512)595-3790
FAX: 512/595-3409
