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Introducing A New Guest Blogger, Kristin Abt

Kambiz Kamrani — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:57:08 +0000

Kristin Abit is a new guest blogger here at Primatology.net. She is currently a Master’s student, studying Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology at the University of Maryland. Her undergraduate degree was in Biology and Psychology from Loyola University, also in Maryland.

Kristin has over 5 years of experience in the zoo field as an animal keeper. She primarily cared for lemurs and Old World monkeys. She also participated in field research experiences in Costa Rica and Malaysian Borneo. Her research interests focus on improving animal wellbeing through applied research in the captive setting, especially relating to environmental enrichment and animal management. In a border scope, she also tells me she is interested in conservation education and conservation psychology.

I left primate care several years ago, so I’m happy to have someone like Kristin, with so much primate care under her belt, help us out. I’m looking forward to reading her posts!

Filed under: Administration, Blog Tagged: Conservation Biology, Costa Rica, Maryland, Sustainable development, University of Maryland College Park

Introducing A New Guest Blogger, Allison Hanes

Kambiz Kamrani — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:50:10 +0000

It is with great pleasure to introduce a new member to our Primatology.net blogging family, my good friend Allison Hanes. We both attended UCSC for our undergraduate degrees and became friends while taking some prerequisite courses. Allison got her Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies/Biology. She’s enrolled as an MSc student in the Primate Conservation program at Oxford Brookes University.

She has worked over five years as a veterinary technician, has had research experience with the Shusterman Pinniped Group at UCSC Long Marine Laboratory, and has an extensive wildlife-related volunteering record. Her interests include veterinary medicine, ecotourism, community-based conservation, sustainable development, and conservation medicine.

She’ll be publishing a post here in the near future, so make sure to keep an eye out. Again, she’s been my friend for over 10 years and I’m very enthusiastic about having Allison on board. I believe she’ll offer a great mix of topics and look forward to reading her posts.

Filed under: Administration, Blog Tagged: Education, Master of Science, Oxford Brookes University, Sustainable development, Veterinary medicine, Veterinary technician

Changing our site name to Primatology.net

Kambiz Kamrani — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:45:24 +0000

As you may have already noticed, I’ve decided to change our site’s name. I’ve done so because I own run Anthropology.net and want to match this site to that. Furthermore, Primatology.org is not so much an organization, as denoted by old the domain name. If anything we are a network of people interested in primatologists, thus Primatology.net is more fitting. Semantics really…

If you have any concerns that things will be dramatically changed, they won’t. URLs and links to Primatology.org will still function, but they will forward to Primatology.net automatically. I have a concern that our Technorati rank may drop, as well as our current rank as #2 on Google’s search for Primatology. If they do, then so be it — can’t have it all.

I hope y’all still visit regularly and post thought-provoking comments.