Tag Archives: Environmental Science

ACU Wildlife Society Spotlight

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Joshua Brokaw

This January The Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society featured the ACU Wildlife Society and our research projects in its monthly newsletter!

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Monitoring Wildlife in the Southern Rolling Plains Using a Camera-Trap at Water Catchment Stations

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Riley Morrow

In the spring semester of 2016 I joined in a research project, which was just starting to formulate, with another student. Other than classroom-based research and presentations, this was my first time being involved in a research project. This particular … Continue reading →

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Wrap up – Sort of

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Samantha

Well, this could be my last blog for this project, or not! Although we have worked a lot on pushing to complete our research it was just not feasible to get all of our samples run before graduation, or the … Continue reading →

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The Last Blog… A Reflection of a Tall Grass Prairie

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Emily Adams

This has been quite a year for me and Samantha, and our research with Dr. Brokaw.  We have learned a lot, about our research area in Oklahoma, about the ACU Biology Department (that has so graciously welcomed a couple crazy … Continue reading →

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That moment when….

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Emily Adams

This has been quite a semester for this project. It’s been a relatively discouraging process; I have often felt as though I wasn’t getting anywhere. Yeah, I supposedly know how to use a gas chromatograph. Yeah, I know what the … Continue reading →

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Faith and Trust

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Samantha

While setting up my samples to run overnight in the lab I am always fearful. What if I did something wrong? What if this thing falls over (It’s pretty tall)? What if the cyclohexane evaporates and the heating mantle causes … Continue reading →

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Back to a routine….maybe

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Samantha

During the first week of school Dr. Brokaw taught me how to use the computer program that I will need to do the Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) of our Tallgrass Prairie vegetation plots. The program is called Canoco. It is … Continue reading →

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Prairie Research: Background Information

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Samantha

I thought I would give some background information on the research Emily and I are working on. Today’s post will be the background, and my next post will explain the methods we are using in our research, hopefully breaking this … Continue reading →

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