Got the Fulbright!

This month was slow in the field and I continued camera trapping in heavy rains and flooding.  Early in September my field assistant spotted a lone dhole chasing a sambar deer on the road leading to our housing.  Just a week ago, rangers reported hearing a pack of dholes in the same vicinity.  I plan to scrounge together my working cameras and concentrate on this area.  

I work with a Thai university student who is project coordinator for the Smithsonian. He organized a workshop on sustainable society and we hosted a group of university students for a weekend of camping and interviewing villagers.  I participated in and gave a presentation at their workshop.

I kept myself busy reading journal articles to try to narrow down a focus for an NSF DDIG (due in November).  I am also taking two classes this school semester: Readings in GIS and Ecological Modeling in R.  The professor is working with me remotely; however, it was too expensive for me to register for credit.

And the Good news:  I received a Fulbright grant!  The grant will cover expenses of about US $10,000 for a ten month period.  As part of the program, I am also required to enroll in a Thai language course.

We have 6 box-traps built and ready to deploy next month.  I am still working on research permits for the study of domestic dog disease spillover.