[MARMAM] Recycling equipment

[William Rossiter]

What do you do with your old but faithful research equipment, either 
when the work is done or you get something newer? Gone digital, upgraded 
your GPS, radio, data recorder, or laptop?

This post is to request that you consider the potential for that 
equipment to end up in the hands of a scientist who needs but cannot 
afford such equipment, perhaps a research project in a developing 
country. The very broad range of equipment to be considered would 
include almost anything that works faithfully and can be shipped at 
reasonable expense.

Recently Cetacean Society International sent a 2002 GPS unit to 
Columbia's Fundacion Omacha, to help researchers study Amazon River 
dolphins. A Nikon FM2 with appropriate lenses may be enroute to Trinidad 
shortly, to assist a dolphin population study, if we can talk an 
unrealistic young woman out of an extremely expensive digital outfit she 
saw recommended on MARMAM by someone who must have a fat contract.

In some cases the equipment's fair market value may become a tax 
deduction from CSI for the US donor, if ownership and value can be 
established.

If you are interested please contact CSI with a realistic and detailed 
description of your stuff, but send nothing. There are many caveats with 
this concept, and we don't have any more room in our closets either. 
Ideally, CSI will try to validate the request, attempt to link the 
request with a donor, establish that the stuff will work at the 
destination, and perhaps facilitate the shipping.

Again, send nothing but an email to start the process.

Thank you,
Bill

William W. Rossiter
President
Cetacean Society International
P.O.Box 953, Georgetown, CT 06829 USA
ph 203-770-8615, fx 860-561-0187
rossiter at csiwhalesalive.org
www.csiwhalesalive.org