How to join a Wildlife Conservation Program: Options and Red Flags. In the form of Q-and-A.
Read More
What Project was about (context):
The plastic problem in our ocean! Dissecting the stomachs of dead seabirds (no killing, only found samples) to see if they had swallowed plastic.
Read More
What Project was about (context):
Kangaroo behavior, specifically measuring “flight distance”, aka, how close you can get to individual females “as a dominance challenge”. This entailed trudging around the fields, looking for grazing kangaroo females to approach systematically for the test.
Read More
What Project was about (context):
I came to study the life-cycle, of wild parrots and macaws, three main species in the Amazon of Peru.
Read More
The Greater Los Angeles is more diverse for fieldwork nature spaces than you might think: from the Ballona Wetlands, to Griffith Park/Santa Monica Mountains, Tide Pools, the Great Basin, and beyond! Research and outdoor groups are active all over! They are just sometimes hard to find…
Read More
This page is for those curious and looking to get out and volunteer on wildlife / conservation research projects, with little to no experience, confused about an entry point.
Read More
What Project was about (context):
To study monkey behavior, social systems. In semi-wild free-range monkeys. The troupe was located on an enclosed mountain, where they thought they were free.
Read More
What Project was about (context):
To study the immune health of insect-eating bats in different agricultural ecosystems: organic vs conventional farming. In this case, where I was present, that part of the study took place in a huge almond orchard.
Read More
Thinking of study abroad, teaching english, mingling with locals? For anyone who will be immersing themselves with locals in Italy, I put together a list of ways an American could embarrass themselves, as I have, living among Italians. :) Here are 6 cultural taboos I committed and you can avoid!
Read More