Learning How

LCF Field Methods Courses and Internships

Field Methods: On site 2013

1. Restricted
March, L. Taylor, University of Miami

2. Open to all
March, N. Vasey, Portland State

Scope
8-10 students Fundamentals: identifying individuals, making ethograms, focal animal, scan & checklist sampling Diets: captive & foraging Identifying sleeping trees Physicals: weights, fingerprints, vet care

Skill Sets - Forests

Finding Following Recording Advanced: practicing for thesis/dissertation

Skill Sets - Shelters

Enrichment Husbandry Diets Faces

Variety in Experience

Using facilities

A full week

Measuring success
Admissions to graduate programs
Anthropology, medicine, global health, veterinary medicine, creative arts

Outside academic - field research, employment, giving back

Allison Hansel LCF 09,11

James Herrera LCF 07, 09

NSF Grad Res Fellow Margot Marsh Diversity NSF Diss Imp Award IPS/ASP/Leakey funding Explorers Club Young Explorer Award

Brehan Furfey LCF 09

Laura Lopez LCF 11

To name a few
Alex Porpora - environmental humanities Ariel Owens - Skywalker Ranch Stephanie Fetzko - MD/PhD Nick Schaad - Medishare in Haiti Britt Singletary - U of A lemur research Elan Portner - PhD Stanford cuttlefish Andrea Baden - PhD Stony Brook, lemurs

our own kids.

Considerations going forward

Fall programs Adult programs - Earthwatch, garden clubs e-bonding to LCF Expanding internship variety Facilities - beds, bandwidth, bathrooms

Because
The lemurs and experiences at the Reserve have changed who I am; they have given me a respect for a life that had not existed before; they have given me the patience to endure the rapidity of events or the stillness in between; most importantly, they renewed the confidence that I need become a physician and that I have the courage to face any task before me. Tori Brennan, LCF 13