Certainly, the issues could be explored through conventional lectures and books, but the real-life fieldwork, students and college officials say, has been invaluable.
Our knowledge of their geographic distributions and diversity patterns however is very limited – possibly the poorest among mammals – mainly due to their nocturnal and volant life history, and challenging fieldwork conditions in the tropics where most bat species occur.
As we grew up, he balanced fieldwork with home life, growing vegetables and being committed to fatherhood.
Growing up in an itinerant middle-class family, he enjoyed reading, debating and sharing in his father's geological fieldwork, but his life was punctuated by sorrows — chiefly, his parents' divorce and his mother's suicide.
A greater challenge for Boisserie is combining fieldwork with private life.
Some examples it gave include using iPads to do fieldwork on plant life in biology classes, teach marching band formations and provide clinical instruction at the Wexner Medical Center.
"It is such a love in my life," Dr. Sterling said of the fieldwork.
We report adaptive multimethod fieldwork procedures that gathered life history data by mail survey and telephone interview, comparable with the face-to-face methods employed in the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing (ELSA).
The present study is a secondary aim of a larger project about information provision among people receiving palliative cancer care [ 28, 29, 31] where the fieldwork was informed by life-world phenomenology [ 12, 32].
While pregnant in Oman, I wrote as much as possible from my fieldwork notes before motherhood subsumed my life.
The money enabled him to return to Tonga for 125 days of fieldwork, during which he successfully composed one life-size portrait of a 12-foot-long calf.
