by Meg | Sep 2, 2017 | Panda, Science
With a solid week of heavy rain, the temperature dropped from the low 90’s and has hovered around the ideal mid 70’s here at Bifengxia. The temperature change also gave way to each intern hitting the benchmark 90% inter-observer reliability for their...
by Meg | Aug 19, 2017 | PDXWildlife, Science |
We departed Gengda for Chengdu as we are now shifting gears to our research at Bifengxia. The fall interns arrive this weekend and we will all head to Ya’an on the 21st. It was hard to leave Zack and Nicki, but we are more than happy to hand over the...
by Meg | Jan 20, 2017 | Internship, Science |
I have returned home safe and sound and Zachary David remained at Tiantai Shan to continue with our studies. Here’s what he has to say about our first camera trap set-up at Tiantai Shan: “After many setbacks and missteps, from Meg’s bag getting lost, to...
by Meg | Jan 19, 2017 | Panda, Science |
I have just returned from my stay in Tiantai Shan and after many trials and tribulations (mostly involving traveling during the winter) Zachary David and I managed to make our first visit up to Tiantai Shan, the site of the Phase II Giant Panda Reintroduction Training...
by Meg | Oct 27, 2016 | Internship, Panda |
Panda People! Only about 2 weeks left here in beautiful Ya’an and I couldn’t be anymore upset about the fact. I thought by now I would be itching to get back to Los Angeles, back to my first-world life in sunny California. But I have grown enormously attached to our...
