Kalysha Clark

I've made it halfway through the semester! Woo!

One thing I'm doing a lot of this semester is working on projects! I thought I would take just a minute to talk about some of the ones I'm working on.

For my conservation biology class, I am a part of two group projects. One studies wildlife presence on golf courses and compares the rates at which wildlife are captured on camera traps across three different landscape types - rural, exurban, and suburban. The second project is a conservation controversies discussion. Our controversy is the Red Wolf Recovery Program, which is currently under review by the US Fish and Wildlife Program. Our discussion plans to approach the topic from a couple different stakeholder perspectives and ultimately try to answer whether we should continue or cancel the program.

I am also involved in a group project for my human-animal interactions course that will research elephant-human conflict and look at a couple ways to solve mitigate those conflicts.

In addition, I am continuing to work on my independent research project that started over the summer, which focuses on perceptual range in cliff chipmunks. I plan to present my research at the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium at the end of November!

Lastly, I was just given an awesome opportunity to start working with The Nature Conservancy (very exciting!!!) on a project that looks at how municipal governments talk about climate change. I'm super excited to get the opportunity to not only gain more research experience, but also get to expand my professional network.

With all that said, I'm super busy. But who isn't? I just take it one day at a time.