Ep. 496 - Duck Math and Adventures in Alaska

DUCKS UNLIMITED NATION TRIP AUCTION!Maddie Lohman, a PhD student from University of Nevada-Reno and 2-time DU research fellow, joins host Mike Brasher to discuss her research on mallards, pintails, and blue-wings in the Prairie Pothole Region. She shares how an initial dislike of math turned into a fascination with quantitative ecology and how she hopes her research will inform conservation. The two also reminisce about their trip to Alaska with friends and colleagues to study black brant on the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. www.ducks.org/DUPodcast DUCKS UNLIMITED NATION TRIP AUCTION!