NRTG’s MicroCourses offer a dynamic training pathway that’s as flexible as it is enriching to build expertise. Our Amphibian Survey and Collection Methods, spanning four hours, delivers in-depth training in an easily digestible format. It’s designed to maximize your skills for immediate application.
As awareness of the value of amphibians and the necessity of conserving their habitats continues to grow rapidly, so does the demand for skilled professionals proficient in handling these often delicate and complex species. This course equips individuals expanding their careers into this realm with detailed knowledge. It covers specific capture techniques, their rationale, and execution, along with best practices for safe handling to prevent injury or disease transmission. Additionally, it explores broader elements such as study design and offers guidance on identifying species across various life stages and habitats.
Topics covered will include:
- Designing an effective survey
- Overview of amphibian life cycle
- Methods for field surveys and capture
- Proper handling techniques
- Safety during fieldwork
- Amphibian specific ethics ad policy
- Amphibian salvage
Course will be 4 hours long.
Instructor Profile
Charity Blaney, M.Sc., Wildlife Ecologist
Charity has spent the last several years studying long toed salamander ecology in the Rocky Mountains of Southwestern Alberta. Her career stems from a passion for all things nature which began at an early age roaming the forests, rivers, and mountains of Northern British Columbia. Before university, she worked as a wilderness mountain guide and thrived being surrounded by wildlife such as wolves, grizzly bears, and wolverines for weeks at a time, always wanting to know more about how they lived. Since then she has studied rainforest plants from a remote field station in Brazil, worked for a number of municipalities in invasive plant control, taught ecology labs at the University of Calgary, and botany and forest ecology at Northern Lights College. She loves her work as an instructor with NRTG for the opportunity to share her interests with others.
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For inquiries on this course, please contact NRTG at: 1-877-388-2172 or info@nrtraininggroup.com
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