Crazyness
OMG the shit has really hit the fan with uni work.
In the next 2 weeks I have to hand in the following:
Conservation genetics essay - 3000 words
Conservation practical write up
Grant proposal - 3 pages
GIS practical - about where a wind farm can be viewed from
GIS project proposal
Literature review for Gibraltar field trip - 2000 words
On the plus side in a few weeks I'm going to Gibraltar for 10 days on my field trip. I am doing a project comparing parasite burden (feather mites) in migratory and non-migratory bird species so I get to practise my mist netting and bird handling skills. This will be followed by 6 days holiday in Morocco with Mike and Steph from my course. Yey! Holiday! After that is 3 weeks of doing my GIS project and writing up my Gibraltar project and then I'm off to America.
I've got a placement in the US working for the Institute of Bird Populations on their Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship programme. I will be spending just over 3 months in either Yosemite National Park or one of the National Forests in Oregon or Washington State :) I will be mist netting and ringing birds as well as carrying out bird and habitat surveys. If I go to Yosemite (all depends if they manage to get funding) then I will be camping in a proper camp site for the whole 3 months - you have to keep all your food in these special bear proof boxes - ecopixie is afraid of bears. If I go to Oregon or Washington I will be camping for the 2 weeks of training and then will have a roof over my head. I am secretly hoping that I will get sent to the place thats a log cabin in the middle of nowhere, with no electricity or running water but with a massive lake outside...with canoe.
Hopefully I will find out soon, but its going to be awesome, I even get paid, well expenses anyway. I got my bird book of North American birds today, have to start swatting up! Its all so soon, my placement starts on the 1st of May....I still have to find a placement for the other 9 months though, eek!
I get to do this to birds....
http://www.birdpop.org/Interns/MAPSGallery.htm
In the next 2 weeks I have to hand in the following:
Conservation genetics essay - 3000 words
Conservation practical write up
Grant proposal - 3 pages
GIS practical - about where a wind farm can be viewed from
GIS project proposal
Literature review for Gibraltar field trip - 2000 words
On the plus side in a few weeks I'm going to Gibraltar for 10 days on my field trip. I am doing a project comparing parasite burden (feather mites) in migratory and non-migratory bird species so I get to practise my mist netting and bird handling skills. This will be followed by 6 days holiday in Morocco with Mike and Steph from my course. Yey! Holiday! After that is 3 weeks of doing my GIS project and writing up my Gibraltar project and then I'm off to America.
I've got a placement in the US working for the Institute of Bird Populations on their Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship programme. I will be spending just over 3 months in either Yosemite National Park or one of the National Forests in Oregon or Washington State :) I will be mist netting and ringing birds as well as carrying out bird and habitat surveys. If I go to Yosemite (all depends if they manage to get funding) then I will be camping in a proper camp site for the whole 3 months - you have to keep all your food in these special bear proof boxes - ecopixie is afraid of bears. If I go to Oregon or Washington I will be camping for the 2 weeks of training and then will have a roof over my head. I am secretly hoping that I will get sent to the place thats a log cabin in the middle of nowhere, with no electricity or running water but with a massive lake outside...with canoe.
Hopefully I will find out soon, but its going to be awesome, I even get paid, well expenses anyway. I got my bird book of North American birds today, have to start swatting up! Its all so soon, my placement starts on the 1st of May....I still have to find a placement for the other 9 months though, eek!
I get to do this to birds....
http://www.birdpop.org/Interns/MAPSGallery.htm