Monday, May 29, 2023
A while back I contacted our five CalPoly Scholarship students to hear how they were doing. They all replied despite their very busy lives. I’m sure you are curious so I’ll catch you up on two of them.
Waverly Davis wrote that she was about to board a plane for South America in about an hour. She traveled with her sister for a few weeks in Ecuador and Peru and excitedly packed her binoculars hoping to see some of the “awesome South American birds!” She “worked on various research projects and seasonally monitored watersheds in Colorado, Utah and Arizona.” Her enthusiasm was clear that she “wanted to see those areas restored to their former glory one day.” In 2021 she went back to a previous job working with the CalPoly Sensory Ecology lab on a project in New Mexico. That year she “was in a managerial position and enjoyed seeing the project she’d worked on as a field technician from a different perspective.” She also “had so much fun measuring and banding birds as well as nest searching.”
Alon Averbuj wrote in 2021 that he “just finished up a year of work in Hawaii studying endangered birds.” He was an AmeriCorp Service Member at the Kauai Forest Bird Recovery Project where we studied and conserved two species of Hawaiian honeycreepers, and one species of thrush. It was a wonderful year of intense field work, amazing friends, and beautiful birds. He is “now back on the mainland applying for ecology PhD programs.”
I can tell I’d better get in touch with our CalPoly Scholarship Students again to get the latest news! It’s been a while. Life moves so quickly and goals are accomplished! Onward to the next goal.
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Happy trails, Bob and Heather
