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...
by Meg | Dec 10, 2016 | Panda, Travel
Busy days here at the Bifengxia panda base. Not only from PDXWildlife studies, but also from a massive reconstruction of the tourist facilities and bear pens. As all of the remodeling began about a year ago, they seem to have wrapped the majority of the work up...
by Meg | Dec 8, 2016 | Internship, Panda |
Stephanie Wong tells us about her first few days as a PDXWildlife panda intern- It’s been a week since I arrived to Ya’an and there hasn’t been a single boring day. I am busy learning all the research techniques and protocols, and navigating the panda base. I am...
by Meg | Dec 7, 2016 | Internship, Panda |
Zachary David talks about his first few days in China- China so far has definitely taught me that you have to be able to adapt if you are going to survive. From the bus rides to the panda base that can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 ½ hours, to trying to...
