by Meg | Mar 14, 2013 | animal, coal, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Science, Travel, wildlife
Being the only Americans in a city of 1.25 million, you tend to stick out a little bit. It just so happened that we caught the eye of a reporter from the Ya’an Daily Newspaper. Over a steaming bowl of Ya’an’s best noodles at Mr. Cheng’s, we...
by Meg | Mar 7, 2013 | Around PDX, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Science
Did you notice the menu change on our front page? Yep – that’s right we’ve blogged about it a couple of times but PDXSeafood will finally be making it’s debut this summer. We’ve partnered with the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood...
by Meg | Mar 4, 2013 | animal, Current Endangered Species News, Environmental Impact, Panda, pollution, Science, wildlife
The extreme difficulty in obtaining permits to transfer biological samples back to the United States from China has caused our mercury project to use a lab here in China. We are very pleased to have made contact with one of China’s foremost Methylmercury...
by Meg | Feb 28, 2013 | animal, Around PDX, Current Endangered Species News, Panda, Science |
The Portland Tribune has featured our panda research on the front page, emphasizing the importance of mate choice in zoos. Check out the article and let me know what you think! It’s perfect timing as March is the month for panda breeding. -Meg
by Meg | Feb 18, 2013 | Around PDX, Current Endangered Species News, Panda, wildlife
For Valentine’s Day the Oregon Zoo sent out a press release covering both my pygmy rabbit study and my new work with the pandas. I especially love the little graph they made up of my findings! -Meg
by Meg | Jul 24, 2012 | Around PDX, Current Endangered Species News
I’m super excited! I just published my second paper for the year – “Investigation of individual and group variability in estrous cycle characteristics in female Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) at the Oregon Zoo” in Theriogenology. If...
