You got no choice on your packed lunchbox and your daily meals when you are staying in the forest and do some conservation fieldwork. Practicality is the key. People need to go to the forest as early as the sunrise to do the survey and go back to the camp feeling exhausted in [...]
Archive for the ‘Field work’ Category
5 Oct
Being a tree detective
Measuring tree diameter is probably the easiest field work. You just need to bring the DBH meter and follow the standard operation procedure for measuring tree diameter and somebody else need to record the measurement. But it’s not as simple as that.
17 Aug
Celebrating Independence Day in the field
August 17 is the sacred day for Indonesians. Back in 1945, it was the day that we finally free from colonialism. We did still have some problems afterwards, but the Independence Day marked the bravery of our national heroes and all Indonesian people to speak up and to fight for the freedom. Today, [...]
28 May
Permits, another research hassle
Tropical rainforest of the Southeast Asia have always been fascinated to naturalists and scientists, even Alfred Russel Wallace came back here again and again. For the scientific concerns, the old world of Asian tropical forest offers so many things to see and study. In the 21st century, the chance of finding new species [...]
19 May
A school in the forest
A friend of mine in Friendster put ‘Way Canguk research station’ in her school list. I guess she’s right. My ’school’ time in here was started back in the end of 1997, about 6 months after it was built. This is a research station built by the Wildlife Conservation Society—Indonesia Program in [...]
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