OUR COLLABORATION
Our Centre works with several local and overseas academic research institutions, NGOs active in education and nature conservation, as well as grassroots village organizations (see Links for their www pages).
Academic and Government partners in PNG:
- Biology Department, University of Papua New Guinea
- Forestry Department, University of Technology
- Forestry Research Institute
- National Institute of Agricultural Research
- National Research Institute
- Divine World University
- Department of Environment and Conservation of the PNG Government
Academic partners overseas:
- Australian School of Environmental Science, Griffith University, Australia
- Biology Department, Ostrava University, Czech Republic
- Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, USA
- Department of Zoology, Oxford University
- Centre for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Institute of Entomology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, USA
- National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, USA
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK
- School of Natural Resources Science, Queensland University of Technology
- Woodland Park ZOO, USA
Non-governmental and Grassroots village groups:
- Bismarck-Ramu Group
- Kau Willdlife Area
- Ohu Conservation Area
- Tree Kangaroo Conservation Project (Finisterre Mts.)
- Wanang Conservation Area
- Wildlife Conservation Society Papua New Guinea
WWF Papua New Guinea
OUR PARTNERS' WEBSITES
Institutions collaborating with the Center
Bishop
Museum, USA:
http://www.bishopmuseum.org/research/natsci/science.html
Christensen
Fund USA:
http://www.christensenfund.org/
Czech
Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, NovotnyLab:
http://www.entu.cas.cz/en/departments/department-of-ecology….
Guelph
University, Hebert Lab:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~phebert/
Harvard
University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Pierce Lab:
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pierce/people/pierce/…
Indo-Pacific
Conservation Alliance:
National
Agriculture Research Institute, Papua New Guinea:
Oxford
University, Department of Zoology
Smithsonian
Center for Tropical Forest Science
Smithsonian
Institution Global Earth Observatories
http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/sigeo/
Smithsonian
Institution, National Museum of Natural History:
Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute, USA:
University
of Minnesota, Biological Sciences, USA, Weiblen Lab:
University
of Ostrava, Czech Republic, Biology Department:
University
of Papua New Guinea:
University
of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, Czech Republic:
University
of Sussex, School of Life Sciences, UK:
http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/groups/biology.htm
University
of Technology, Papua New Guinea:
Woodland
Park Zoo, Seattle
Zoologische Staatssammlung
Munchen, Balke Lab:
http://www.zsm.mwn.de/col/e/balke_beetlelab.htm
Research Projects with Paraecologists
Arthropods
of La Selva, Costa Rica:
http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html
Costa
Rica’s InBio:
Guanacaste
Conservation Area, Costa Rica:
SIMAB –
anthropogenic disturbance and arthropods, Gamba:
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/….
Other links
Barcode
of Life:
Hulcr, J. Images of New Guinea bark beetles
http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/…..
Hulcr, J. 2009. Key to the World Genera of Xyleborina ambrosia beetles:
http://hymenoptera.tamu.edu/scolytinae_world_genera_key/
IBISCA:
Diversity and distribution of forest arthropods
http://www.naturalsciences.be/cb/ants/projects/ibisca_main.htm
Janda, M. Ants of New Guinea
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?guide=Ants_New_Guinea
Weiblen, G. D. Online interactive key to New
Guinea figs