by Katie Zajac | Jul 29, 2020 | animal, Conservation, Education, PDX Wildlife, PDXWildlife, research, Science, wildlife
How do you start a behavioral research study? In our previous blog, we shared some of the techniques to doing behavioral research, so now you can go off and start recording right? The answer is…not quite! In conducting behavioral research, you must outline the...
by Katie Zajac | Jul 22, 2020 | animal, Conservation, Education, PDX Wildlife, Science, wildlife
No more tally sheets! That’s right…for the last decade or so, we’ve thrown out the antiquated, hand-marked tally sheets in favor of something far more modernized. Many of our Citizen Scientists may agree, hand-scoring and uploading data can be a bit...
by Katie Zajac | Jul 15, 2020 | Science |
Ever wonder how we measure animal behavior? Recently, we answered the question ‘’Why Animal Behavior?’’ Now it’s time to understand how we record this behavior. In the previous blog, we introduced the ethogram as the selected method used to record observed behavior....
by Katie Zajac | Jul 8, 2020 | animal, China, Conservation, Nonprofit, Panda, PDX Wildlife, Projects, Science, wildlife |
Ever wonder how and why we measure animal behavior? If you have decided to join our Pacing Pandas Citizen Scientist team you should have a pretty good idea of what we’re talking about! In the interest of streamlining the process for our citizen scientists,...
by Meagan Gombart | Apr 22, 2020 | Conservation, Current Endangered Species News, Endangered Species, PDX Wildlife, Science, wildlife
[vc_row full_width=”1″][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/400474572″ align=”center”][vc_column_text css_animation=”top-to-bottom”] “Two little pandas sitting near a tree. First comes love; then comes...
by Meg | Jan 27, 2020 | Education, Internship, Panda, Science |
Hi panda fans! We’re about one month from touching down in China with our projected first day in Gengda on February 25th! We’ve been busy putting together our plans to restart our reintroduction research and coordinating potential pilot projects with the...
by Meg | Dec 31, 2019 | Science |
Sitting here the eve before a brand new decade at my desk, and I’m thinking about how much has happened over the past 10 years. If you donated and received our 2020 Calendar you’ll have a lovely look back at highlights from our last 10 years of panda work! (If...
by Meg | Oct 16, 2019 | Internship
Intern setting camera traps for reintroduction personality study at Hetaoping. Talks in China went really well and we’re moving forward with our reintroduction research. We will also be conducting a pilot on new breeding projects (more information soon!)....
by Meg | Jul 26, 2019 | Science |
Intern setting camera traps for reintroduction personality study at Hetaoping. Exciting news to share with everyone! We’re headed back to China in September to resume work and collaboration with the CCRCGP on all of our projects! The CCRCGP has approved our...
by Meg | Apr 5, 2019 | Science |
Hi everyone! First of all, I would like to thank you for your interest and support in my project. For those of you who missed the previous blog and the Memphis conference where Meg and Nate presented some of my preliminary results, here’s brief summary of the...
