{"id":68777,"date":"2005-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/amphibian-research-guides-exeter-resident-to-uri-graduation\/"},"modified":"2005-05-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T00:00:00","slug":"amphibian-research-guides-exeter-resident-to-uri-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/05\/amphibian-research-guides-exeter-resident-to-uri-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Amphibian research guides Exeter resident to 溏心vlog免费B站 graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — May 13, 2005 — Frogs and salamanders have played an unusually important role in Alison Milliman\u2019s education at the 溏心vlog免费B站. They\u2019ve been the subject of her research, they\u2019ve earned her grants, and she speaks enthusiastically about them when she notices one during a hike near her Exeter home. And they might play a role in her future as well.<\/p>\n


\n\tMilliman, who will graduate May 22, took a rather circuitous route to earning a bachelor\u2019s degree. That route included stops at colleges in New York and Pennsylvania as well as brief stints working half a dozen jobs from office assistant to restaurant manager. But when she arrived at 溏心vlog免费B站, she settled in and excelled in the classroom and in field research.<\/p>\n


\n\tLast summer Milliman spent most days using telemetry equipment to track the movement of spotted salamanders living adjacent to a golf course in Connecticut as part of a research project to assess the effects of habitat fragmentation on the amphibians.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI learned a lot about amphibians on that project,\u201d said the Exeter resident. \u201cMy identifications got better, and I got great experience handling a variety of animals.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDuring her research she observed that golf course fairways were not significant barriers to the movement of the salamanders as was predicted, at least not during rainy days. The fairways did, however, force the salamanders to move farther from their breeding pools than salamanders living in more forested habitat.<\/p>\n


\n\tAs Milliman neared graduation, she continued her amphibian research, thanks to an undergraduate research grant she was awarded by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Office of the Provost. Several times this spring she visited ponds scattered around southern Rhode Island to count the number of \u201cegg masses\u201d laid by wood frogs and spotted salamanders. This ongoing project is used to assess the status of each species to help determine if local development is impacting amphibian populations.<\/p>\n


\n\tIt\u2019s not just during her research that Milliman marvels at wildlife. \u201cI live near Arcadia Management Area, so I can walk out my front door and be on a hiking trail in just a couple of minutes,\u201d said the wildlife conservation biology major. \u201cYesterday I saw 14 painted turtles, a vernal pool full of breeding wood frogs, an osprey and a yellow-bellied sapsucker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following graduation, Milliman plans to return to 溏心vlog免费B站 for graduate school to earn a master\u2019s degree and study stream hydrology. \u201cUltimately I\u2019d like to work in a government or non-profit job doing freshwater habitat restoration and habitat management,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\tThat means that frogs and salamanders will probably continue to play a major role in her life for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — May 13, 2005 — Frogs and salamanders have played an unusually important role in Alison Milliman\u2019s education at the 溏心vlog免费B站. They\u2019ve been the subject of her research, they\u2019ve earned her grants, and she speaks enthusiastically about them when she notices one during a hike near her Exeter home. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68779,"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-68777","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\/68777","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=68777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}