On the edge - a commercial trawler pulls in her nets just outside the boundary of the Tarutao National Marine Park.
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Study Abroad in Thailand!

Academically challenging and intensely experiential, ISDSI courses are expeditions into the cultures and ecology of Thailand. Each course is focused on understanding sustainable development and is designed in collaboration with local communities.

Integrating both the social and natural sciences, on our courses students may work on an organic farm alongside villagers while learning about agroecosystems, backpack on remote forest trails in the mountains with ethnic people in order to study indigenous forest management, sea kayak to learn about oceans, reefs and fishing communities, or paddle a river with village elders while studying ethnoecology.

Spring semester at ISDSI (See a video about the fall semester on our video page.)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Fall Semester, 2010 Application Deadline- March 15, 2010.

Spring Semester, 2011 Application Deadline- September 15, 2010.

To apply please email apply@isdsi.org for an application. See our Apply page for more information.

What’s happening at ISDSI now? Go to www.isdsi.org/calendar/details/ to see our current activities, what our students are doing, etc.

ISDSI Blog

March 10th, 2010

Grandma Hai

Grandma Hai is a legendary figure in the struggle for human rights and rivers. She has been fighting the construction of a the Huay La Ha reservoir which put her rice paddy under water.  She’s been fighting a long time — 32 years — and has emerged as an icon of rural protest — not [...]

March 9th, 2010

Thai Sustainable Architecture

Great post today from our friend Chutayaves Sinthuphan (Chuta).  Khun Chuta is a Thai architect who is doing some great work on sustainable architecture here in Thailand — working on container based housing, earthen structures (adobe and cob) and other projects.
Khun Chuta was just featured on a documentary television program.
We were featured on a documentary [...]

March 5th, 2010

Reflecting on rivers

Each Expedition Field Course has a mid-course seminar — a chance to reflect on what is being learned, summarize, and prepare for the next phase of the expedition.  Ajaan Abram, teaching the rivers course, met the students in Nong Khai and traveled with them to the seminar site.

For the Rivers course, the seminar took place [...]

March 4th, 2010

Dancing Tigers and the Yom River Recon

We got back from our recon of the Yom River late Monday night for our Rivers course. It was a good chance to learn more about the river, test out our new canoes, check on gear and rigging, and see how the canoes performed in both swift water as well as some of the long [...]

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