{"id":702,"date":"2019-08-28T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/?p=702"},"modified":"2019-08-28T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T17:28:08","slug":"olivia-box-graduate-school-in-natural-resources-and-forest-ecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/uncategorized\/olivia-box-graduate-school-in-natural-resources-and-forest-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Box: Graduate School in Natural Resources and Forest Ecology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always been interested in conservation and ecology, and through the biology and environmental studies departments at Hamilton I was able to dive deeper into these topics. While at Hamilton I spent summers in Maine, Germany, and Massachusetts working on various forest ecology and conservation-oriented projects. My views of ecosystem grew, and I decided to pursue graduate school in hopes of developing further research skills in the conservation field.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018 I joined a forest ecology lab at the University of Vermont as a master\u2019s student. I\u2019m studying the impacts of Asian longhorned beetle and associated eradication measures on forests in southeastern New England. My research combines fieldwork, climate modeling, and data analysis. I\u2019m currently working on my first paper, and I hope to make these findings accessible to the public through extension outreach.<\/p>\n<p>Designing and implanting a thesis while at Hamilton was the best preparation I could have gotten for graduate school. I\u2019m most grateful for our lab group morale in Andrea\u2019s lab\u2014we learned from each other\u2019s research and had a great support system.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Olivia-Box-1-e1567011592102.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"706\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/?attachment_id=706\" class=\"wp-image-706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Olivia-Box-1-e1567011592102.jpg 480w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Olivia-Box-1-e1567011592102-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Olivia-Box_2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"707\" data-link=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/?attachment_id=707\" class=\"wp-image-707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Olivia-Box_2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Olivia-Box_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Olivia-Box_2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always been interested in conservation and ecology, and through the biology and environmental studies departments at Hamilton I was able to dive deeper into these topics. While at Hamilton I spent summers in Maine, Germany, and Massachusetts working on various forest ecology and conservation-oriented projects. My views of ecosystem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/townsend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}