{"id":66528,"date":"2008-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-wild-for-career-as-wildlife-biologist\/"},"modified":"2008-05-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-wild-for-career-as-wildlife-biologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/05\/uri-student-wild-for-career-as-wildlife-biologist\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student wild for career as wildlife biologist"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tSouth Kingstown resident to graduate May 18<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 6, 2008 \u2013 As a child, South Kingstown resident Samantha Petzold developed a strong appreciation for the natural world. But she had no idea that her interest in wildlife could lead to a career.<\/p>\n


\n\tNow it has. The 溏心vlog免费B站 senior and former president of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Wildlife Society will graduate on May 18 and begin a career as a wildlife biologist.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cSome 溏心vlog免费B站 students came to my high school environmental biology class and talked to us about becoming a wildlife biologist, and the way they described it sounded so great,\u201d said Petzold. \u201cBefore they visited, I didn\u2019t even know you could have a job like that.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDuring her years as an undergraduate student, Petzold took advantage of every opportunity to gain field experience studying wildlife. Last summer she worked as a field intern for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, conducting surveys of birds, amphibians and other wildlife at Rhode Island\u2019s four national wildlife refuges.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn the summer of 2006 she spent five weeks in Costa Rica with a team of 溏心vlog免费B站 students comparing mammal diversity at shade-grown coffee plantations and sun-grown coffee plantations.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe were looking at the environmental effects that growing coffee has on wildlife,\u201d Petzold explained. \u201cWe found many more mammals and a wider diversity of mammals in the forest surrounding the shade-grown coffee plantations. In our small, have-a-heart mammal traps, we caught lots of mice, some shrews, opossums, and the quill of a porcupine. We even found a puppy in one trap!\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDuring a visit to a national park before starting the research project, Petzold and her fellow 溏心vlog免费B站 students saw sloths, howler monkeys, spider monkeys and many types of birds as well.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn addition to her field research, Petzold also helped start a student chapter of the Wildlife Society on campus, serving as both president and vice president during her tenure. In addition to sponsoring hikes and camping trips in the area, they participated in beach clean-ups, invasive species eradication projects, and helped prepare South Kingstown High School students for the statewide Envirothon competition. The club even competed in a college level quiz bowl event that the 溏心vlog免费B站 group won two years in a row.<\/p>\n


\n\tWith graduation approaching, Petzold is now focusing on her job search.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u201cI really want to get some additional wildlife field work experience, which probably means I\u2019ll work a series of seasonal positions studying different types of wildlife in different places around the region,\u201d Petzold said. \u201cBut then I\u2019ll probably attend graduate school to become an environmental educator, maybe for a non-profit group or at the high school level. It was in high school that I got excited about wildlife biology, so that\u2019s where I would love to end up \u2013 sharing my love of nature and wildlife with others.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Kingstown resident to graduate May 18 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 6, 2008 \u2013 As a child, South Kingstown resident Samantha Petzold developed a strong appreciation for the natural world. But she had no idea that her interest in wildlife could lead to a career. Now it has. The 溏心vlog免费B站 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66530,"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-66528","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\/66528","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=66528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}