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Rhiannon Belcher, Primate Behavior MS
Barlow Experience: Research, Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, WA
I am immensely grateful as the Barlow award helped fund part of my stay in Seattle for my master’s thesis research. During my research, I was able to study the environmental use of two different species of captive lemurs and gain valuable experience in designing and conducting my own research to help me prepare for (hopefully!) future research examining lemur behavior and cognition.
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Kailyn Campbell, Primate Behavior MS
Barlow Experience: Research, Oregon Zoo, Portland, OR
I will be observing four chimpanzees at the Oregon Zoo and recording their behaviors with a goal of developing baseline data before the introduction of a new enclosure and unfamiliar chimpanzees. With the zoo in a state of construction and transition, I will also be recording the sounds and vibrations of construction throughout. I look forward to spending time at the zoo and learning more about the chimpanzee residents!
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Miranda Cays, Primate Behavior & Ecology, BS
Barlow Experience: Research, Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, WA
The Barlow Award enabled me to continue volunteering at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, in addition to getting my first research assistant experience for an alumnus of CWU's Primate Behavior program. Because of my time at CSNW, I've learned to prepare and serve meals, clean enclosures, prepare enrichment, and safely interact with the chimpanzees. Getting to build relationships with each of them has been a very rewarding process that I plan to continue over the next year. Through my work as a research assistant I gained experience digitizing records and insight into the research process. Both of these experiences have helped me develop my résumé and have made it possible for me to begin pursuing my own undergraduate research project.
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Elizabeth Coggeshall, Primate Behavior MS
Barlow Experience: Research, Thailand
The Barlow grant was instrumental in conducting my master’s research in Panah, Thailand. My research focuses on the relationship between maternal investment behaviors in long-tailed macaques and variable parasitic loads in offspring. The opportunity to afford to conduct my research in another country yields more benefits than just scientific research. I learned so much about Thai culture and Buddhism, which taught me about friendship and kindness in a way I have never experienced here in America. Creating relationships and experiencing different cultures is so crucial for learning and understanding others. My summer was indescribable - I was surrounded by the kindest people, the pluckiest monkeys, the most beautiful cultures, and unfathomable scientific opportunity. And those experiences definitely allowed me to learn a thing or two about myself! I am deeply thankful for this scientific and cultural opportunity that the Barlow award allowed me to achieve.
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Bradley Esparza, Anthropology BS; Forensics certificate
Barlow Experience: Bioarchaeology Field School, Salango, Ecuador
I spent three weeks in the August of 2019 working as a student in Prof. Nicole Jastremski’s Bioarch field school, located at the Museo de Salango in coastal Ecuador. Though I have traveled to Europe several times, this was my first time traveling to South America. We stayed in cabañas inside the museum compound. We worked in the labratorio and had our meals in the comedor in the building next door. Local women came in to cook our meals, so the food was always fresh. Human burials and cultural objects uncovered before a planned factory expansion back in the 1980s was the focus of our research at the field school. As a group we had two weekend outings, one to La Isla de Plata to look at blue footed boobies and humpback whales, and down the coast to the communa of Valdivia, where the oldest ceramic culture (5,000 BCE) was found in coastal Ecuador, and the nearby tourist town of Montañita.
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Qion Green, Museum Studies minor
Barlow Experience: Intern, Northwest African American Museum
During my Barlow experience I was able to be a participating member of NAAM as well as become part of the NAAMily. My Barlow experience allowed me to gain hands-on experience working in a museum not only as a Museum Studies minor but as a Business major as well. Being able to complete my internship with NAAM has helped be build upon my studies and build relationships with people from my community.
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Sydney Haglund, Anthropology BS; Forensics certificate
Barlow Experience: Bioarchaeology Field School, Salango, Ecuador
This summer I had the opportunity to analyze prehistoric human skeletal remains down in coastal Ecuador. I gained invaluable hands-on experience in the different methods and techniques used in bioarchaeology. I am extremely grateful for the financial support provided by the Pete and Sandra Barlow Award, as this opportunity would not have been possible without it. This was definitely the highlight of my summer!
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Nik Harkins, Anthropology BS; Museum Studies minor
Barlow Experience: Cultural Resource Management Field School, WA
The Barlow Award allowed me to attend the Anthropology Department’s Cultural Resource Management (CRM) field school during the summer of the 2018-2019 school year. This opportunity was more than I could have imagined, as the field school was weeks of intensive, hands-on learning. We did the work someone in the CRM field would do; recording archaeological sites and site data, processing map data, building site profiles, and even excavation! Most of this material I had read about or learned about through other classes, but there’s nothing quite like doing it in person and getting a sense for what jobs in the field are actually like. Without the Barlow Award, I would not have had this opportunity, and I would not know just how much I love archaeology and CRM. It was an opportunity I have never before had the chance to partake in and it cannot be overstated just how much I loved the experience and how much I learned. I am incredibly grateful for the chance to attend field school and am thankful to the Barlow Award for enabling this opportunity for me.
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Shaun Mayo, Primate Behavior MS
Barlow Experience: Research, Duke Lemur Center, NC
This summer I collected data for my master’s thesis at the Duke Lemur Center to identify if individuals showed hand preferences for certain types of food in their diet. With the Barlow Award, I was not only able to cover the cost of travel but also research fees for the entirety of my time at the DLC. I am grateful to Pete and Sandra Barlow for their generosity in funding my research and allowing me the opportunity to study such a unique species of primate.
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Emily Patton, Primate Behavior MS
Barlow Experience: Research, Wildlife Waystation, CA
I set out at the beginning of this summer to conduct my graduate thesis research at Wildlife Waystation, home to over 400 animals in the Angeles National Forest in California. I collected behavioral data on nine chimpanzee residents to assess how they responded to their human caregivers’ behavior during informal interactions like grooming or playing. I am curious to see whether the chimps responded differentially to their caregivers using either human-like or chimp-like behaviors during these interactions, and whether their early life experiences and exposure to humans had an impact on their responses. I am very eager to analyze the data and share my results. I hope that this research will help us better understand the relationships between humans and nonhumans and discover new ways to improve the welfare of captive chimpanzees.
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Roxanne Sanders, Primate Behavior & Ecology BS; Anthropology BS
Barlow Experience: Biodiversity of Bhutan Field School, Bhutan
While participating in the Biodiversity of Bhutan field school with Dr. Sheeran and Dr. Barlow I was not only given the opportunity to turn my primatology and cultural anthropology knowledge into hands-on experience but was taught many new skills in the field of conservation biology and wildlife ecology by numerous experts from Bhutan as well. Participating in this field school really helped me improve upon myself both academically and personally, as I learned many new things that will accentuate my career goals and career path, along with many new things about myself and the cultures outside of my own. I was given the opportunity to grow in many ways during this field school, and my appreciation for everyone and everything incorporated will continue to thrive in my heart always. I am and always will be thankful for being able to participate in this incredible program.
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Leah Shenyer, Anthropology BA
Barlow Experience: Archaeological Field School, OR
When I signed up for this field school, I did not know what I was getting myself into. I was nervous because this was going to be a six-week camping trip in the middle of high desert Oregon. Once the excavation was opened, screening pit set up and computer station running, we were assigned a partner and unit and got to work. We were taught how to dig, record artifacts in our paperwork, what to keep in the screen, and how to enter artifacts into the electronic data base. Once we got to the bottom of the excavation, we did profiles of all the walls and took samples for soil and botanical research. Out of all the possible outcomes of this experience, I never thought at the end of the six weeks that I would find myself hesitant to leave the new family I have grown to love. I never would have had the opportunity to have this amazing experience with out the Barlow scholarship, I do not know to thank them enough.
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Maddie Spencer, Primate Behavior MS
Barlow Experience: Research, South Africa
I spent this past summer in Phalaborwa, South Africa at the Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education (C.A.R.E.) to collect observational data for my master’s thesis. C.A.R.E. is home to over 450 chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) whose lives started traumatically after losing their mother’s and sometimes their entire troops. During my time at the centre, I was able to observe a troop of captive chacma baboons who are awaiting re-introduction to the wild. My goal here was to provide new information to other rehabilitation sites on the benefits this process has in regard to the ultimate goal of re-introduction into the wild. My time at C.A.R.E. provided me with so many great experiences and learning opportunities. Being able to observe the individuals on a regular basis was so beneficial in helping me to learn each individual’s identity, behavior, and idiosyncrasies. It was amazing to observe how they interacted with each other and begin to understand their social system. Beyond observations, I was able to talk to management and learn from their shared experiences. I am incredibly grateful to have received the Barlow Award as it aided in helping me have this experience that taught me so many lessons, that I will carry for years to come.
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Mallory Triplett, Cultural and Environmental Resource Management, MS
Barlow Experience: Archaeological research, Columbia Plateau in Kittitas and Yakima counties
The funding that I received from this award allowed me to conduct the fieldwork necessary to complete my Master’s research. My fieldwork over the summer included going to several different locations on the Columbia Plateau in search of a unique type of rock used to create prehistoric stone tools. During this process I worked with locals and professionals who have extensive knowledge in the area in order to locate and record these unique rocks and feel fortunate to have had this experience.
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