by Meg | Feb 20, 2016 | Internship, Panda, Science |
It seems like it’s been longer than just three full days with the interns because we’ve gotten so much done! The learning and settling in process always seems like such a whirlwind! Here’s a quick look at what the first few days of a PDXWildlife...
by Meg | Feb 12, 2016 | Panda, Science |
We’ve been lucky with the weather over the last couple of days. The sunshine has brought all of the moms and cubs outside to play – including Ying Hua and her cub! As you’ll recall from Daniel’s and Nate’s last posts on Ying Hua and...
by Meg | Feb 6, 2016 | Panda, PDX Wildlife, Science |
With Meghan busily traveling through the Sichuan province to further the scope of PDXWildlife’s research on pandas, she still manages to break out the camera and impress me with her photographic eye. Her latest subject was the ever-so picturesque Lin Bing,...
by Meg | Jan 21, 2016 | Nonprofit, Panda, PDX Wildlife
With the beginning of the new year, the panda research season also kicks off. In a few days, PDXWildlife ships off to Sichuan, China to train a team of 4 interns to collect behavioral data as well as the highly lucrative job of bagging panda poop. The PDXWildlife...
by Meg | Jan 19, 2016 | Internship
I’m excited to welcome our 4th and final winter giant panda intern, Ariana McShayne-Ananda. I leave in one week for China to prepare for our research season! Note: Ari has a degree in Wildlife Conservation and Photography so photo requests should start rolling...
by Meg | Jan 13, 2016 | Internship
To get all of our readers excited about the upcoming research season we’re continuing with our “blog-introductions to our new giant panda intern” series. Nicole Cady, or Nicki, is the third of four so next week (the week before I leave!! EEEeeeek!!)...
by Meg | Jan 5, 2016 | Conservation, Internship
Happy New Year! We’re gearing up for our winter 2016 giant panda research season – I leave in just 3 weeks – Yikes! But I thought that a great way to start the new year was introducing you to our second winter 2016 giant panda intern. Here’s a...
by Meg | Dec 21, 2015 | Internship, Panda, PDX Wildlife
PDXWildlife is taking applications for the May 15th-Aug. 15th, 2016 Giant Panda Internship positions until January 2nd, 2016. We are looking to fill four spots that will be located in Sichuan, China to work with panda bears, travel, eat exciting foods, and most...
by Meg | Dec 15, 2015 | Science, wildlife |
So what is our big news that we’ve been hinting about for the last couple of weeks? My PhD work on giant panda mate choice just got published in Nature Communications (click to read the full article)! I’m over-the-moon with the positive responses...
by Meg | Dec 14, 2015 | Panda, PDX Wildlife, Science |
My, has time flown by! In the past few months, I’ve had the chance to connect with each of the 31 bears here at Bifengxia – specifically, the panda mothers and their cubs. Like I said before, being the maternal care intern has its benefits. The more I watch mothers...
