by Meg | Jan 2, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
Even though I just returned from China, we are preparing to send Meghan off later this week. With reintroduction studies kicking into high gear in Gengda, we are both scrambling to prepare behavioral ethograms and camera equipment as this is new territory for our...
by Meg | Dec 21, 2016 | Internship
So the last couple of days have been absolutely insane but a common theme hidden within the craziness has been trees full of pandas. Yes you heard me correctly, trees overflowing with, more often than not, tiny little black and white fuzz balls. That’s because a...
by Meg | Dec 14, 2016 | PDXWildlife
Meghan and I are in a unique position as we get to know each intern rotation on a professional and personal level while spending several weeks training. We remain in contact after we return home with a weekly video call, but in reality they can contact us 24hrs a day...
by Meg | Dec 12, 2016 | China
While PDXWildlife heavily focuses their internship program on science and study design, an exciting and necessary addition is cultural immersion. Without diving head-first into the complexities of Chinese society, one might not receive the full experience that this...
by Meg | Dec 11, 2016 | PDXWildlife, Science |
Two difficult words to stomach during your first week(s) as an intern are- Interobserver Reliability (IoR). This is the metric that we use to assess the degree to which different observers give consistent estimates of the same event. For each of our studies, we...
