Following Great Orange Apes through Indonesian Swamps: Tales from a Year of Orangutan Research in Central Borneo
On Thursday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. at the Scranton Memorial Library, Madison, Madison native Katherine Meier will recount her year of studying orangutans in Indonesia. Her presentation includes stories and videos that focus on what it’s like to become immersed in Indonesian culture while studying the lives of world’s only Asian great ape.
Meier will discuss what it was like to live and work for a year in the world’s most-populated Muslim country. She will explain what the day-to-day life of a field primatologist is like—and exactly how and why one would study orangutan ecology.
Registration is preferred at www.scrantonlibrary.org or by calling 203-245-7365
Meier attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She graduated in 2016 with a major in anthropology and minors in biology and studio art. Her focus was on physical anthropology and she has done field research on wild primates in Madagascar and Indonesia. Having recently returned from a year in the field, she is currently applying to Ph.D. programs in the hopes of continuing in this area of research.