Islander takes Project Dragonfly Earth Expedition

Bainbridge Island resident Ellen Jewett, who is pursuing graduate credit through Miami University’s Project Dragonfly Earth Expeditions, will travel to Baja in summer 2015.

Bainbridge Island resident Ellen Jewett, who is pursuing graduate credit through Miami University’s Project Dragonfly Earth Expeditions, will travel to Baja in summer 2015.

Jewett will study the diverse desert and marine landscapes of two richly diverse biosphere reserves through ecological and social field methods.

Since the program began 10 years ago, Project Dragonfly’s Earth Expeditions graduate courses — on which the master’s programs are based — have engaged more than 1,700 people in firsthand educational and scientific research at critical conservation field sites in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. Dragonfly is located in the biology department at Miami University, a state university in Oxford, Ohio.