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Ashley Ager is a Psychology Major & Childhood Studies Minor at CNU who has spent the past two summers in South Central Alaska. She completed a semester-long (75 days) wilderness course with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) during the summer of 2004, which really amped her interest in environmental ethics and conservation. Nearly 600 miles of the Alaskan backcountry was trekked by Ashley and her NOLS group, via backpacking, whitewater rafting, and sea kayaking.
This past summer she worked for the USDA Forest Service in the Glacier Ranger District of the Chugach National Forest in Portage, Alaska where she was an Interpretive Guide/Naturalist for both visitors and locals. Ashley plans to graduate from CNU in December of 2006 with a BA in Psychology. After graduation, she plans to move to Alaska and obtain an additional degree in Outdoor Studies from Alaska Pacific University, and attend graduate school at The University of Alaska in Anchorage to obtain a Masters degree in Psychology. She will continue working for the Forest Service, and hopes to obtain a Kayak Ranger position on the Prince William Sound for the summer of 2006. In the future, she would like to run or work for a company specializing in outdoor behavioral health treatment for substance-abusing or emotionally disturbed adolescents.
Rebecca East is an undergraduate biology major with an emphasis in zoology. She has experience working with an animal hospital assisting with surgery and medical diagnostics. She currently works as a teaching assistant for Biology 300WI - Biology III for Majors (writing intensive). Her career goals include working with zoo or marine mammals. Additional interests are wildlife conservation and rehabilitation.
She plans to pursue a Master Degree in Environmental Science at CNU and will work with Dr. Sherwin on her thesis. She spent summer 2006 in Nevada studying population ecology and roost switching of Corynorhinus townsendii (Townsend's big-eared bat).
From a very young age, Jeff Frederick knew he wanted to be a scientist and work with and around animals. Jeff enjoys keeping herps as a hobby and has housed several species of boas, pythons, chameleons, geckos, frogs, and turtles. He was also an active breeder of Rhacodactylus Ciliatus (Crested Geckos). As an undergraduate at CNU Jeff is majoring in Biology and is involved in a great deal of field research with his mentor, Dr. Richard Sherwin.
Summer of 2005, Jeff worked for the Utah Division of Oil Gas and Mining doing surveys and bio-inventories of abandoned mines to investigate the benefits of reclamation and possible habitat use by bats. Jeff also spent eight weeks in southern New Mexico working for the US Geological Survey. He was involved in a study of foraging characteristics and roost dynamics of nectivorous Leptonycteris Spp. (Long-Nosed Bats) using radio telemetry. At the end of the summer, he joined a mark/recapture project with the US Forest Service, investigating the impacts of forest fires on Sacramento Mountain Salamander populations.
During the summer of 2006, Jeff worked on a project funded by the Nevada Department of Wildlife studying population ecology and roost switching in Corynorhinus townsendii (Townsend's big-eared bat) with respect to abandoned mines. Jeff is a Teaching Assistant for Biology 300 for Majors and President of the CNU Bowling Club. More > >
Chris Jones is an undergraduate ornamental horticulture major. Currently, Chris works in Dr. Sherwin's lab preparing animal study skins. He has done mine reclamation field work gates on mines in Alaska with Dr. Sherwin for the USDA Forest Serivce. He has also worked as a veterinary surgical assistant, and, in summer 2002, was a research and development intern for the Philip Morris Corporation. For the last three years he worked as a student employee for the Deparment of Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Science.
Michelle Slosser is an undergraduate biology major with an emphasis in zoology. She has studied fragmentation effects on small and medium sized mammals in an urban park and participates in dolphin identification in the Elizabeth River. Her research interests include wildlife and habitat preservation. Her future goals include graduating, continuing her wildlife research, and eventually working at the Virginia Marine Science Museum.