Researchers/ Collaborators
Radboud University Nijmegen: Laura Govers, Marieke van Katwijk, Leon Lamers, Arie Vonk, Jan Roelofs,
NIOZ, Yerseke: Jim van Belzen, Tjeerd Bouma, Peter Herman, Johan van de Koppel, Achmad Adhitya
University of Groningen: Tjisse van der Heide
LIPI Oceanography, Indonesia: Wawan Kiswara,
CDU, Australia: Kiki Dethmers
AWI, Germany: Dominik Kneer
University of Florida, USA: Brian Silliman
CEAB, Spain: Teresa Alcoverro, NCF-India Rohan Arthur
Turtle & Seagrass links
Seaturtle.org the godfather website about marine turtles
The GPS tracked path of Turtle Mayo, (2009)
Flipper d-base (found tag number 272200-272600? email me!), Satellite track d-base, Turtle Bibliography
Make your own map with seaturtle.org Maptool (first sign in) or with Indian Oceans MOU IMAPS
> 100 turtles killed near Derawan Island (2009)
Tropical seagrass ID, participate in global seagrass monitoring
Notes from the field (World Seagrass Association)
Other
TED education lessons worth sharing, cool nature stuff
Conservation magazine and its teaching tools, WildlifeDirect: endangered animals
Check out conservation projects: TNC East-Kalimantan, WWF Derawan, Turtle foundation and other partners
The Radboud University ”virtual classroom”
Biology News Agenda (conferences, and Dutch exposition, courses)
Trip planning
Arrange your visa (instructions to get an Indonesian research permit)
Learn basic Indonesian here: Learning Indonesian (podcast, pdf by email), Learn Indonesian in 7 days (+audio & dictionairy), Beginning Indonesian (more advanced), Indonesian, Wikibooks (open content-language textbook), English – Indonesian Dictionairy (very good)
Read a travel story by Gerard Jacobs about Berau (Tanjung Redeb)
Travel tips from others: Tips from LP’s Thorn Tree Forum, Travel tips from world travelers (in Dutch) & Official things to arrange if you leave the Netherlands for a while (in dutch) and tax info
Indonesian public holidays
Fact book about Indonesia by the CIA, Photo album of the Netherlands to impress the Indonesians while you are there.
In Dutch (Red Cross) “Eerste hulp weet wat je moet doen”
