Last updated 26/Feb/2005
Field research assistance
Over the past couple of years I have worked as an assistant in a number of research projects and gained in-depth knowledge on army ants, elephants and forest trees. Mt Kenya is an excellent site for studies on large mammals such as elephants, buffaloes, black-and-white colobus monkeys, and sykes monkeys, as well as for studies on birds. Moreover, due to the fact that natural habitat has been preserved over a wide altitudinal range, it is also highly suitable for research on how diversity of different organism groups changes with altitude. But my work as a research assistant has also taken me to several other forest habitats in Kenya and Uganda. I have worked as an assistant for Caspar Schöning who recently finished his PhD on African army ants which can be found here. I also helped in another study on the reproduction biology of army ants which was recently published in the journal MOLECULAR ECOLOGY (please see the abstract of this article). I thoroughly enjoyed these projects and would be happy to participate in other studies. Please feel free to contact me, if you are looking for a qualified and hard-working field assistant.
A foraging trail of army ants in the forest of Mt Kenya.
