Dr. Rachel P Hickcox

Category: field work

field work / New Zealand / penguins!

Fieldwork week 1 day 5

Location: Hina Hina Cove, Catlins Date: 10/19/2018 What a place! Besides the very long and a bit challenging walk through private paddocks and over a bumpy, not greatly maintained dirt road, it was a...

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field work / New Zealand / wildlife

Fieldwork week 1 day 3

Location: Owaka Head and Jack’s Bay, Catlins Date: 10/17/2018 Cereal and tea for breakfast. We left the accommodations at 8:45 and traveled by two yutes (trucks) near to the site from the day before,...

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field work / University of Otago / wildlife

Fieldwork trip 1 day 1

Location: Catlins Date: 10/15/2018 The goal of the week: count penguin nests at 4-5 different sites, including scanning for transponders to ID birds, counting eggs, GPS locate each nest, and deploy a few GPS...

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conservation / field work / New Zealand / travel

Weekend trip to the Catlins

13-15 July The Department of Conservation (DOC) in New Zealand is roughly equivalent to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Government run, they do everything from protecting species, restoring habitat, research, development, monitoring, reporting, and...

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field work / penguins! / wildlife

Surprised I am alive

Thursday was a big day. I had two meetings with other penguin people to discuss a range of topics, including my proposed PhD research. Then it gets good. Another PhD student Mel asked me...

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