by Meg | Feb 20, 2017 | Science |
The PDXWildlife Winter Research season is about to kick off and I’m writing this in the airport as I wait for, yet another, delayed flight to San Francisco. Fingers crossed I make it to my connection (and my bags do as well!). While I’m never thrilled...
by Meg | Feb 9, 2017 | Science |
At the request of quite a few diligent blog readers, I have accumulated as many panda vocalizations as possible over the last couple weeks. The following video shows a pretty expansive variety of vocalizations; the one that will be most prevalent is the bleat which...
by Meg | Jan 20, 2017 | Internship, Science |
I have returned home safe and sound and Zachary David remained at Tiantai Shan to continue with our studies. Here’s what he has to say about our first camera trap set-up at Tiantai Shan: “After many setbacks and missteps, from Meg’s bag getting lost, to...
by Meg | Jan 19, 2017 | Panda, Science |
I have just returned from my stay in Tiantai Shan and after many trials and tribulations (mostly involving traveling during the winter) Zachary David and I managed to make our first visit up to Tiantai Shan, the site of the Phase II Giant Panda Reintroduction Training...
by Meg | Dec 23, 2016 | Conservation, Science |
Giant panda no longer endangered The giant panda was down-listed from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Vulnerable’ on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) list. This change in official status demonstrates how a multi-institutional, integrated conservation effort...
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...
