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 13, 2016 | Panda, PDXWildlife |
The Bifengxia panda base is currently entertaining a film crew that is producing a movie called: The Lady and the Panda. Which is based on the book with the same title. The book and movie are set to follow the romantic adventure of Ruth Harkness and her trek to Tibet...
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...
