September 27, 2024
Throughout the Americas, millions of migratory shorebirds depend upon saline lakes. However, alarming reports and photos of these lakes drying up point to the devastating impacts of too much water being extracted from the lakes or their inflows. One of the species most dependent on saline lakes is Wilson’s Phalarope. ...
My Undergraduate Research Experience at Weber State
My name is Kate Thompson. I'm a zoology major with a minor in psychology at Weber State. My pursuit of avian research started two years ago when I arrived on the first day of my undergraduate-level Zoology M1110 class and was informed by the professor that there was a field experience available to students called bird banding. I had never heard of bird banding before and had no idea at the time where it would take me.
I sent several emails to apply for the team and was put on the roster to band with a small crew on a weekday. Initially, I was excited to begin fieldwork. As a first-generation college student in my freshman year, I felt like I was exploring entirely new worlds. I was nervous on my first day of banding and showed up fifteen minutes early to the bird banding site in anticipation.
Kate Thompson, first-generation zoology major
October 28th, 2024
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