Operation Wallacea
Malcolm S. Ramsay is an experienced educator and researcher in the field of anthropology, currently serving as a Teaching Assistant and Course Instructor at the University of Toronto since September 2014. Ramsay has taught courses on ecological interactions, primate behavior, evolutionary anthropology theory, and human-animal interactions. In addition, Ramsay holds the position of Lead Lemur Scientist at Operation Wallacea, overseeing training for dissertation students and facilitating educational activities on lemurs and conservation. Relevant past experiences include co-managing a research camp for the Guassa Gelada Research Project, conducting literature reviews as a WatCACE Undergraduate Research Fellow at the University of Waterloo, and participating in wildlife rehabilitation and research at Alouatta Sanctuary. Ramsay possesses a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Anthropology from the University of Toronto, complemented by a Master's degree and a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology with a minor in Biology.
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Operation Wallacea
Operation Wallacea is a series of biological and social science expedition projects that operate in remote locations across the world. These expeditions are designed with specific wildlife conservation aims in mind - from identifying areas needing protection, through to implementing and assessing conservation management programmes. Large teams of university academics, who are specialists in various aspects of biodiversity or social and economic studies, are concentrated at the target study sites. Research Assistants and dissertation students joining the surveys have the option of customising their own itinerary from a range of training and science options. The surveys result in a large number of publications in peer-reviewed journals each year, have resulted in 30 vertebrate species new to science being discovered, 4 'extinct' species being re-discovered and $2 million levered from funding agencies to set up best practice management examples at the study sites. These large survey teams of academics and volunteers that are funded independently of normal academic sources have enabled large temporal and spatial biodiversity and socio-economic data sets to be produced, and provide information to help with organising effective conservation management programmes.