Assistant Biology Professor Eric Smith received a $725,000 grant from the National Science foundation to catalogue new species in Indonesia, according to a press release Thursday.. <\/p>\n
Smith begins work later this year as the lead investigator with a team of researchers, which will include UTA students. The grant funds the project for three years. <\/p>\n
Alumnus Michael Harvey, now a Broward College associate professor, will join Smith as co-principal investigator. <\/p>\n
Harvey and Smith traveled to Indonesia in 1996 while attending UTA to study amphibians and reptiles. The two published scientific papers about the new species they discovered. <\/p>\n
We calculated we were getting a new species of reptile or amphibian every four hours, Smith said in the release. So thats how much work the area needed. Its a huge place and it will take a long time to explore what is there. <\/p>\n
Some of whatever the research team finds in the upcoming trip will come to UTA for further study. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
More: Assistant Biology Professor Eric Smith received a $725,000 grant from the National Science foundation to catalogue new species in Indonesia, according to a press release Thursday.. Smith begins work later this year as the lead investigator with a team of researchers, which will include UTA students. The grant funds the project for three years Continue reading
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