To give you greater variety we are expanding our normal field work to
incorporate an Alpine Option. Obviously this provides a superb location for
glacial studies, but it also presents a range of other study options
working from a small private British owned and operated hotel in the small
resort of Le Bettex near St. Gervais, which gives access to the Mont Blanc
Massif with its excellent urban and rural settlements, agriculture, tourism
and land use conflicts. It also, of course, adds another dimension to
microclimate and biogeographical studies, extending the concepts already
developed in the Mont Lozere Region with respect to ideas of conservation,
preservation and sustainable development. This option will be available
during May and early June and mid September through October.