Seabird Survival and Dispersal Analysis

Catalog description

Client-inspired class held at the Dry Tortugas National Park (near Key West). The principal field activity will be catching, ringing and measuring sooty terns as part of a National Park Service effort. The graduate version of this course has close similarities to the undergraduate class. Both classes will travel together and be expected to catch, ring and process the same numbers of birds. The graduate version differs in the written expectations. These vary somewhat, but have included very extensive documents that eventually comprised the student's master's project and considerable post-trip involvement with the professor and Park Service personnel—such projects are encouraged but not guaranteed. Instructor consent required. Prerequisite: Environment 703.