by Meg | May 31, 2017 | Science |
PDXWildlife founders (Nathan & Meghan) first began conducting research in China in 2010. What seems like an eternity ago, we are now quickly approaching a decades worth of data collection. As female pandas are reproductively viable by about 4+ years of age, cubs...
by Meg | May 28, 2017 | Internship |
When the interns first arrive, a laundry list of items have to be taken care of. Police station to register, tour of the city, choosing a bedroom, groceries, ATM, going over apartment rules, base rules, safety, and working together as a team. This usually takes place...
by Meg | May 24, 2017 | Science |
I’m currently in Dujiangyan accompanying Dr. Kersey (pictured above) for training the staff in fecal hormone analysis. We’ve had a productive couple of days, but as part of this trip I was supposed to drop off our male-male competition fecal samples for...
by Meg | May 20, 2017 | Science |
2011 marked the beginning of our Panda Mercury Project. Now that we are in our 6th year, we are coming to the conclusion with the analysis taking place early next month. Similar to our fecal hormone analysis, there is a lot of effort that goes into the collection,...
by Meg | May 19, 2017 | PDXWildlife |
PDXWildlife hit a significant milestone today. We completed the freeze drying process on our first years fecal samples. Given that we have been running the lyophilizer for 12 months, 24 hrs. a day, this is exciting news, because we can now make our first delivery to...
