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 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 3, 2016 | PDXWildlife |
One of the more glorious aspects of being a PDXWildlife intern is that you get to work with a lot of panda poop. With a backlog of two chest freezers to get through, I’m certain that we will be running the generously donated freeze dryer on a 24 hour, non-stop...
by Meg | Nov 29, 2016 | PDXWildlife |
With a full day planned at the panda base, I made sure that I was 15 minutes early to the bus stop. Partially due to the fact that I didn’t remember the pickup time, but also because I wanted to grab a few dumplings along the way. After cramming down some...
by Meg | Nov 28, 2016 | PDXWildlife, Travel |
After a nearly empty flight where I had full reign of about 30 seats, I landed in Chengdu and high-tailed it to the nearby hotel. With no stalling at check-in, I pulled up the stopwatch on my phone which told me that I had been traveling for 22 hours from my Uber...
