{"id":63123,"date":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/johnston-resident-set-to-graduate-as-uris-top-conservation-biology-student\/"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T00:00:00","slug":"johnston-resident-set-to-graduate-as-uris-top-conservation-biology-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/05\/johnston-resident-set-to-graduate-as-uris-top-conservation-biology-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnston resident set to graduate as 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s top conservation biology student"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 10, 2010 \u2013 Johnston resident Cindy Maynard\u2019s early interest in animals, hiking and camping naturally led her to a desire to study conservation biology. As she prepares to graduate from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 23, she will also receive the President\u2019s Excellence Award as the top wildlife and conservation biology student on campus.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI always liked animals and the outdoors and knew that I wanted to go to college to study something along that career path,\u201d she said. \u201cSince I took a field ornithology class, I really enjoyed working with birds \u2013 the variety, their behavior, their intelligence. They\u2019re fun to watch and learn about.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tMaynard took advantage of every opportunity to get hands-on experience working with wildlife. During the summer after her freshman year, she spent a month in Costa Rica with other 溏心vlog免费B站 students studying the diversity of mammals that live on coffee farms compared to those in the rainforest.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cAfter five years of studies, there\u2019s clearly a difference,\u201d Maynard explained. \u201cBut the farms are also affecting the wildlife in the rainforest. Most of the coffee plantations are on a hill with the rainforest below, and the pesticides and drainage from the farms seem to go right into the forest.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 student spent the last year as an intern with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service studying rare and threatened birds on Sandy Point Island, a small barrier beach in eastern Connecticut.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI spent most of my time monitoring nesting oystercatchers, least terns and piping plovers and migratory roseate terns, common terns and red knots,\u201d she said. \u201cMost days I would walk around the area, check all the nests, adjust signs and roped off areas, and talk to the public about what we were doing and why it\u2019s important. People were mostly supportive and appreciate it, but there\u2019s always a small portion who want to take their dogs out and use the property however they want.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tMaynard has also used what she has learned to mentor other 溏心vlog免费B站 students and to teach elementary school students about science and the environment through the Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences (SMILE) program at the 溏心vlog免费B站 W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cMost of the kids we work with had never had a hands-on science experience like that, so it\u2019s a real eye-opening experience for them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\tNext up for the new graduate is a return to 溏心vlog免费B站 to earn a master\u2019s degree while continuing her work with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She has been accepted into a special training program that will hopefully lead to a permanent position with Fish and Wildlife when her graduate degree is complete.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019m leaning toward becoming an endangered species biologist,\u201d Maynard said of her eventual career goal. \u201cThat\u2019s where the conservation need is greatest. It\u2019s an immediate need, and time is a major issue for endangered species.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 10, 2010 \u2013 Johnston resident Cindy Maynard\u2019s early interest in animals, hiking and camping naturally led her to a desire to study conservation biology. As she prepares to graduate from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 23, she will also receive the President\u2019s Excellence Award as the top wildlife and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}