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Environmental Science Field Skills (EESC 220)

Term: 2022-2023 - SPRING

Faculty

Kathleen Schnaars

Please email me and we can arrange a convenient time for both of us to 'chat'. I usually respond in 24 hours or less, except weekends/breaks.

ALL faculty office hours can be found here:

https://www.uj.edu/current-student/academics/faculty-office-hours

AND A BIT ABOUT ME -

I was born in Brooklyn, NY and loved escaping to my brother’s dairy farm in the northern Adirondacks. I was excited when an opportunity to move to North Dakota presented itself.

As a field ecologist, I have broad interests in birds, plants and insects. I conduct research on the recovery of habitat, severely degraded by destructive snow goose foraging and I oversee the Hudson Bay Project recovery ecology program. I am also interested in declines in aerial insectivores and their population trends, behavior and niche requirements, at and beyond the published range. I am currently examining this by providing and monitoring artificial nest boxes to tree swallows north of tree line and monitoring insect population trends through the breeding season. I have involved students from the US and Canada in my research projects. I also involve the local communities in Churchill, Manitoba and Jamestown, ND, in the projects as citizen scientists.

I am a member of the National Wildlife Society, ND Chapter of The Wildlife Society, North American Arctic Goose Venture, Beta-Beta-Beta Honor Society, Entomological Society of America and advisor to the UJ Student Chapter of the Wildlife Society. I am a Primary Investigator with The Hudson Bay Project and I conduct research each summer in Churchill, Manitoba. I have brought student researchers every summer to participate in the exciting investigations of the Hudson Bay Project. Let me know if you want to join me!

Schedule

Tue-Thu, 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM (1/9/2023 - 5/4/2023) Location: MAIN SORK 201A

Description

This course guides students through the process of identifying, and preparing and applying for internships and/or jobs as well as graduate school opportunities while giving them core competencies valued by employers. Students will become competent in orienteering with a compass and map, as well as a handheld GPS unit and receive an overview of surveying. This course will provide the North American model for sustainable harvest and students will acquire first aid and CPR skills. Students will become proficient with indentifying peer-reviewed journals and will review articles in those journals. Students will develop presentation skills, a resume, a cover letter, participate in mock interviews and job fairs and finally, develop a reserach proposal. Prerequisites:Majors: admission to program, non-majors: instrustor permission. Offered: Spring