What We're Up To

The three of us -- Karan Chhabra, Katie Swails, and Sandeep Prasanna -- are Duke students spending eight weeks in the south Indian rainforest working on a series of short documentary films about environmental issues in order to aid the outreach programs of SAI Sanctuary, a wildlife sanctuary in the Western Ghats region. In the process, we'll also be organically farming, aiding in the construction of biogas plants, and chasing rare plants and animals.

Follow us as we navigate through the jungle and much more!

You can learn more about the DukeEngage program at dukeengage.duke.edu. You can also find out what the SAI Sanctuary, our hosts, are working on at saisanctuary.com.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Duke News... and thank yous

We've been featured again!

A Duke News article about our use of technology during our project: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2009/08/ddisummer.html

And the back of my head (... is ridikalus!) is on the Duke Digital Initiative website: http://dukedigitalinitiative.duke.edu/

Cheers! We're really that the Duke Digital Initiative and the Biology Department sponsored our equipment this past summer. And, of course, it wouldn't have been possible at all without DukeEngage and their amazing support: before we left (heck, before we even fleshed out our project), during our trip, and after we returned.

So THANK YOU:

- DukeEngage
- DDI
- The Bio Department (Dr. Reynolds and Terry Corliss, especially!)
- The Smith Lab

and, of course, any amount of thanks is never enough for what you gave us -- a wonderful home-away-from-home, unbelievable sights, smells and sounds, and incredible lessons about life and nature:

- SAI Sanctuary
- Pam and Anil
- All the wonderful community members we worked with (Firoz... this one's going out to you)
- Mother Nature (is this too cheesy? still, she's awesome)

And here are our videos again. Remember, you can still catch them on iTunes U: Duke: Science: News & Notes: The Jungle Blog.

Junglecast 1 (An intro to our project): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xbooi6HuzQ
Junglecast 2 (Welcome to India): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hQUvnuMJ_0
Junglecast 3 (Jetlag): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CTYs-lL-0
Junglecast 4 (Frogging): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB__pS4KV_8
Junglecast 5 (Building a biogas plant): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JF-dNyFwAQ
Junglecast 6 (Organic Farming): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyi7SFHZTJQ

From Grass to Gas: An Intro to Biogas (English): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY-TzycYWU4
From Grass to Gas: An Intro to Biogas (Kannada): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FvSavnme8M
SAI Sanctuary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6LsGrqGX34
How to Destroy a Fragile Ecosystem in 8 Simple Steps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6e--Ey2Q3U
DukeEngage Reflections: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hCJguknWB8
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