Morgan Watkins: Week 5 Recap
This week we spent time figuring out how to catch the Brood X cicadas. The males make the strangest distress call that sounds like a...
Morgan Watkins
Jun 21, 2021
Sophia Flores: Week 5 Recap
Five weeks down, three more to go! This past week I learned more about creating resumes for natural resources and related careers, which...
Sophia Flores
Jun 21, 2021
Michael Holt: Week 5 Recap
This week marked the end of rating trees! We ended up rating over 2,000 trees for disease severity and now it’s time to start collecting...
Michael Holt
Jun 21, 2021
Dominic Liongson: Week 5 Recap
This last week was busy for Jackson and I. Once we added more cameras and increased the amount of vegetation surveys, we had a lot more...
Dominic Liongson
Jun 21, 2021
Coby Frame: Week 4 Recap
This week I learned the ins and outs of grad school. Throughout the week, several professors and grad students visited and gave...
Coby Frame
Jun 9, 2021
Grace Follmar: Week 4 Recap
This week we began collecting data for our project. It was rewarding to see everything that we’ve worked on the past few weeks come...
Grace Follmar
Jun 9, 2021
Jonathan Shimizu: Week 4 Recap
We are halfway through the program and Michael and I are still rating trees. So far we’ve rated about a thousand butternut trees and...
Jonathan Shimizu
Jun 9, 2021
Alexis Proudman: Week 4 Recap
So basically, my project just got real. One day there were maybe 20 cicadas and the next there were like 1300. It took me an hour and a...
Alexis Proudman
Jun 9, 2021
Jackson Keesling: Week 4 Recap
We are now in the heart of our program, our research is in full swing, and I couldn’t be having a better time. This past week I dealt...
Jackson Keesling
Jun 9, 2021
Alexis Lyons: Week 4 Recap
This week we deployed our cameras to our designated sites and we kept one out of the field to test how long the new Raspberry Pi0 battery...
Alexis Lyons
Jun 9, 2021
Dominic Liongson: Week 4 Recap
This week Jackson and I checked more of our camera SD cards, which gave us some pretty good results. We captured what we thought might be...
Dominic Liongson
Jun 9, 2021
Michael Holt: Week 4 Recap
We’re halfway through the program already and I didn’t think it would go by so fast! On Memorial Day we all went to Columbian Park and...
Michael Holt
Jun 9, 2021
Sophia Flores: Week 4 Recap
Four weeks down, four more to go! This past week required a lot of physical work as Coby and I started our habitat surveys along with the...
Sophia Flores
Jun 9, 2021
Kamryn Dehn: Week 4 Recap
This past week, I started working with Megan on a new project. We will be developing a set of lesson plans for teachers that incorporates...
Kamryn Dehn
Jun 9, 2021
Angie Ayala: Week 4 Recap
This week I learned how to apply to grad school and that, sometimes, attending grad school isn’t always necessary. This week I was...
Angie Ayala
Jun 9, 2021
Kayanna Turner: Week 4 Recap
This past week was a lot of fun! For Memorial Day, we all had a cookout and went to the zoo, which was a wonderful break from our normal...
Kayanna Turner
Jun 9, 2021
Morgan Watkins: Week 4 Recap
We kicked off this week with a fun trip to Columbian Park for Memorial Day, grilled out, and enjoyed each other’s company. At the park,...
Morgan Watkins
Jun 9, 2021
Alexis Proudman: Week 3 Recap
THEY'RE HEEEERE! The cicadas finally came this week and they are amazing. Honestly, they are the coolest thing I’ve seen in a very long...
Alexis Proudman
Jun 1, 2021
Dominic Liongson: Week 3 Recap
Over this past week, Jackson and I did some exciting work setting up all of our camera traps and conducting vegetation surveys. We set up...
Dominic Liongson
Jun 1, 2021
Jackson Keesling: Week 3 Recap
Week three was about finally getting our trail cameras placed and starting some vegetation surveys to begin collecting habitat variables....
Jackson Keesling
Jun 1, 2021
