Laura whyte

Try again later. Citations per year. Duplicate citations. The following articles are merged in Scholar. Their combined citations are counted only for the first article. Merged citations. This "Cited by" count includes citations to the following articles in Scholar. Add co-authors Co-authors. Follow this author. New articles by this author. The University of Stirling has links with conservation organisations which allowed me to volunteer and gain fieldwork skills I otherwise would not have.

I worked with Scottish Natural Heritage SNH to monitor hen harrier populations at Flanders Moss just outside of Stirling, it gave me a sense of what its like to work in research. I was also able to work in conjunction with British Trust for Ornithology BTO on my honours project in my final year, which gave me further bird expertise.

My final year steered me towards threatened species and conservation research. I undertook two modules, GIS and population and community ecology, as well as a research project. I particularly evolved from these modules as they both used real life data and case studies which was useful for considering a career in either GIS or conservation research. I reward population and community ecology as my turning point towards conservation and research as it me a greater understanding of the impact the presence, or absence, of a species in a community could have.

The research project greatly enhanced my research, field and laboratory skills. It involved a research proposal, methodology of research, data collection, laboratory processing, statistical analysis, writing a full thesis, producing a conclusive and concise poster and an oral presentation of my findings,. Since graduating in I have been able to secure a year long internship with Adelaide University working with a group of people who innovatively use drones to advance conservational science and wildlife surveying.

We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting any of our websites. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Use of cookies by British Dressage Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.