Our study will focus on life history and behavior of terrestrial vertebrates.
Life history is the study of animal survival, growth, and reproduction.
Students will learn many research techniques used in wildlife ecology, such as live trapping, marking, and point counts of different species. Students will participate in a wildlife research project at Frautschi Point as part of a UW-Madison restoration project. Our project will include several field trips, as well as hands on interaction with many of Wisconsin s native species found around campus. Students will work at the BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute of Promega Corporation near UW-Madison. Students will learn many of the cutting-edge techniques in genetics and biotechnology.