Career Goals

    Currently I am planning to take a couple years off to gain further experience in research, especially ecology with conservation.  I began Kalamazoo college searching for a career in medicine in the hope of becoming a physician.  However, since then I have changed my focus towards other animals.  I know that I want to work with animals.  I admire such biologists as Cynthia Moss, Jane Goodall, Diane Fossy, etc. who devote themselves to their research.  In addition, I love the aspect of ecology in biology.  I would like to be able to conduct a project that uses first rate science with animals that are often hard to use such methods with.  Alina Kipchumba's project on black rhinos and another graduate student of UIC performing research on snow leopards in Nepal have demonstrated that it can be done!  I hope that in the next few years I can find and learn about an endangered animal in which I could later construct and conduct a doctoral thesis with.  Foraging behavior currently provides a great view into the behaviors, especially those important to conservation, of animals.  I wish to extend extend behavioral indicators to other endangered, hopefully resulting in stronger material to buttress the current conservation efforts.    
 

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