by Maarten Vonhof
Professor of Biological Sciences Maarten Vonhof led a group of WMU students to Belize for study abroad.
This past summer when I took my Tropical Biology course to Belize, we were one of two university groups that were filmed as part of the production of several promotional videos for the rainforest field station we stayed at (BFREE – The Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education).
The filming and production were led by Academy Award-winning nature documentarians Richard and Carol Foster. They have just released one of the videos that features our WMU students quite substantially on YouTube (The Rainforest is our Classroom).
It is great exposure for our study abroad program and Western Michigan University, and I thought it be interesting to see our students in action.
Video (Vonhof speaks at approximately 9:06)
Still photos appearing in the video were shot by Environmental Studies major Darin Howard, WMU.
Links:
WMU Study Abroad
BFREE Foundation
Dr. Vonhoff’s homepage
