{"id":68784,"date":"2005-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/east-greenwich-resident-to-graduate-uri-as-top-wildlife-biology-student\/"},"modified":"2005-05-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T00:00:00","slug":"east-greenwich-resident-to-graduate-uri-as-top-wildlife-biology-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/05\/east-greenwich-resident-to-graduate-uri-as-top-wildlife-biology-student\/","title":{"rendered":"East Greenwich resident to graduate 溏心vlog免费B站 as top wildlife biology student"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tHe\u2019s traveling to Costa Rica in June to study mammals on coffee farms<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — May 13, 2005 — When Jeffrey Backer graduates from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 22, he\u2019ll not only have the distinction of being the top wildlife biology student in his class, he\u2019ll also have an exciting research expedition to Costa Rica to look forward to.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI took an environmental science class in high school with an awesome teacher, Mr. Rath, and it was that experience with environmental science that led me to pursue it in college,\u201d said Backer.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe East Greenwich resident chose to attend 溏心vlog免费B站 for the hands-on learning opportunities he knew were available in the University\u2019s wildlife biology program. As a junior and senior he took advantage of those opportunities by working with Professor Scott McWilliams.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cDr. McWillliams is interested in the ecology of migratory songbirds at stop-over sites such as Block Island,\u201d Backer said. \u201cThese are places where songbirds stop to refuel during their long migratory flights. I helped out in his research by working in the field and in his laboratory, and I conducted my own research project looking at the consumption of fruit by songbirds on Block Island during autumn migration.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBacker took a year off from his studies following his freshman year, and he returned to school motivated to \u201cdo something that might allow me to travel and spend a lot of time outside.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter graduation, Backer will be doing a lot of both. Along with two professors and seven other students, he leaves on June 1 to travel to Costa Rica for three weeks to conduct research on the mammals that live on the many coffee farms in that country.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cCoffee farms dominate the land as well as people\u2019s lives in many tropical countries, and so it\u2019s important to study these landscapes to determine their importance to wildlife and implications for future conservation efforts,\u201d Backer said. \u201cAs countries continue on the path of development, the way people use the land and interact with the environment will change. More research is needed to determine the impact of changing land use and to find land uses that support both an improved quality of life and the conservation of biodiversity and other natural resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Backer returns from Costa Rica, he\u2019ll seek employment as a research assistant to get additional experience conducting fieldwork. \u201cI also plan to go back to school to get graduate degrees in wildlife biology and ecology.\u201d\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s traveling to Costa Rica in June to study mammals on coffee farms KINGSTON, R.I. — May 13, 2005 — When Jeffrey Backer graduates from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 22, he\u2019ll not only have the distinction of being the top wildlife biology student in his class, he\u2019ll also have an exciting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68786,"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-68784","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\/68784","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=68784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}