Dear Laura,
I also use a wheelchair because of cerebral palsy and earned a Ph.D. in
ecology, combining both fieldwork and modeling, in 2012. (I'm currently a
postdoc doing curriculum development.) I'll be happy to correspond
off-list, but here are two main points that I want to make publicly so
Dear Laura,
There are may be many more experienced people to give you answers on this
issue. However; I would like to leave here some of my recent reflections
regarding choices to potential wildlife conservation PhD studies. And the
debate in my mind has been exactly field vs not field work. And
Dear all:
A student has contacted me who wants to pursue graduate studies and an academic
career in wildlife biology. Tragically, she fractured her back two years ago
and is currently confined to a wheelchair. There is only a remote chance that
she will be able to walk again.
I am reaching
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Clearly this individual will find working out in the field a challenge,
however, this need not exclude her from persuing a widlife degree.
From an employment perspective, most wildife jobs are not fieldwork-based,
they are office-based.
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ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] On Behalf Of Malcolm McCallum
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 13:52
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] advice for disabled student seeking grad program
in wildlife biology?
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[mailto:ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] On Behalf Of Malcolm McCallum
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 13:52
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] advice for disabled student seeking grad program in
wildlife biology?
accidentally tried to post this with attachments...dumb!
Clearly
