Dear All,
Sorry for cross-posting.
Here's a possibility for voluntere work with fur seal
pups in New Zealand starting in March.
If you're interested contact the address below!
All the best,
Cristina
> Hi, my name is Roan Plotz, I am currently an
> honours student with the Sea
> Mammal Ecology Group at La Trobe University in
> Melbourne, Australia.
>
> I am doing fieldwork for a project on a large colony
> of New Zealand fur
> seals at Cape Gantheaume on Kangaroo Island, South
> Australia. The site is
> part of Cape Gantheaume Conservation Park. It is in
> a very remote corner of
> Kangaroo Island and requires 4WD access, camping
> etc. I am looking for any
> interested volunteers for field assistance during 5
> weeks from 1st of March
> 2003, and a further month later in the year.
>
> My project essentially involves trying to determine
> the growth strategies
> (energy expenditure)of male and female pups, with
> respect to age, mass and
> behaviour. The hands on work will involve the
> weighing of a cross sectional
> sample of pups to obtain a growth curve for the
> colony. Also the weighing of
> selected pups, that are known to be fasting, in
> between feeding bouts to
> obtain fasting mass loss rates. The other hands on
> aspect of my project will
> involve determining the resting metabolic rates
> (RMR) of male and female
> pups while they are fasting when their mothers are
> away feeding. This will
> involve the use of a field respiration chamber
> (indirect calirometry). The
> metabolic measurements will occur over a period of
> about two weeks.
>
> The behavioural aspect of the project aims to
> determine how male and female
> pups divide their time during fasting, as well as
> during feeding bouts. This
> involves twice daily resights of adult females with
> tagged pups,hence
> determinining the attendance behaviour of the
> mothers.
> The other behavioural aspect of the project will
> involve watching and
> monitoring the behaviour of tagged pups to determine
> how much time they
> spend resting, active and nursing. This requires
> sitting up on the slopes
> and watching with scopes and binoculars, normal
> eyesight etc.
>
> If any volunteers are interested, contact me at
>
> Roan Plotz
> Sea Mammal Ecology Group
> Zoology Department
> La Trobe University
> Bundoora, 3056 Victoria
> Australia
> Email:[log in to unmask]
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Cristina Beans
PhD student
Laboratoire d'Oceanologie
Université de Liège, B-6 Sart Tilman
B-4000 Liège, BELGIUM
(32)4.366.3740
(32)486.730158
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