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Eligibility Requirements

  • Minimum GPA of 2.0
  • Good academic and disciplinary standing
  • Prerequisites: Ecology and Evolution (BIOL 150); Diversity of Life: Animals, Plants, and Microbes (BIOL 160)
  • Ability to demonstrate basic swimming skills
  • Open to all majors
  • No language requirement

Faculty Leaders

Tammy Windfelder and Paris Scarano

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Spring Break 2024 | South Water Caye, Belize

    • Program Fee: $3,400
    • Will include round-trip airfare, accommodations, some meals, local transportation, cultural activities, and excursions.

Applications are due by October 10.

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Big Experiences Lead to Bold Futures

Under the Launch career development platform, all students graduate with at least two experiential learning opportunities on their transcripts. Guaranteed.

This shortTREC program will count towards this out-of-the-classroom requirement in Drew’s rigorous curriculum.

Travel

Spend your Spring Break on an island off the coast of Belize, exploring a marine reserve that is home to the world’s second-largest barrier reef. Snorkel (and maybe scuba) through diverse ecosystems—mangroves, patch reefs and seagrass beds—that provide critical habitat for many endangered or vulnerable species. Live and work in a field station complex provided by IZE Belize.

Rethink

Biodiversity and Marine Ecosystems

What are the markers of a healthy (or unhealthy) marine habitat? Which species populate which habitats—and why? How does each species contribute to this delicately balanced marine ecosystem? And how can these questions be answered with biological field research?

Explore

Synthesize Fieldwork and Scientific Research

Discover diverse organisms during a night snorkel. Measure the length of seagrass blades or levels of dissolved oxygen in critical habitats. Record and analyze data collected on underwater expeditions, then synthesize your fieldwork observations into several research projects. Working individually and in groups, produce scientific research papers like those published in peer-reviewed journals.

Connect

Launch-Endorsed Immersive Experience

Fieldwork experience and research skills are valued across the sciences. This program provides excellent preparation for graduate study and is especially relevant to careers in marine biology, natural resources management, environmental sustainability, ecology and animal behavior.