Rebecca McCabe is now a graduate student and has started her graduate work at East Stroudsburg University.  Rebecca will be studying the nesting ecology of Broad-winged Hawks at the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, and will be involved in efforts to satellite track juvenile hawks to their wintering grounds in Central and South America.

Meta Griffin recently attained a Biology Internship at Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge.  This was a competitive internship position and is an excellent stepping stone for future careers. Many previous interns now work in Federal and State jobs, non-profit agencies like The Audubon Society and the Wild Turkey Federation, and many are employed in Academia.

Great job by both of these Millersville students.

On April 11-12th, Students from Millersville University presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania University Biologists. Meta Griffin and Tristan Conrad (pictured below) presented their research poster on ‘Identification of Areas Baited for Odocoileus virginianis Using Chemical Analysis’. In addition, a research poster by Andrew Wolfgang was on also display about ‘Automated Detection and Identification of Winter Bird Vocalizations’. Great job by all these students.

Students from the Millersville Conservation Planning class spent their Saturday on April 5^th, helping Mike Burcin of the Lancaster Conservancy with some trail maintenance and survey work at the Camp Snyder site.  The Lancaster Conservancy is in the process of restoring this unique site to an educational facility as well as restoring the wild trout stream running through the middle.  Students have been conducting service learning here to get an idea of how plans are made and money is raised to restore an area to its more natural state.

On Thursday, April 3rd, 2014, The Millersville Mammalogy class reviewed the results of a remote camera survey they conducted on the Safe Harbor Nature Conservancy preserve. Below are some of the photo results.