In case you’ve ever wondered what being an environmental biology student is like
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I was on a wetland delineation training where we went to a vernal pool preserve to look at soils/hydrology/dominant plant cover and of course immediately the whole class scattered and started birdwatching/looking for fairy shrimp/surveying for salamanders/doing some belly botany. The teacher drawled “it’s like teaching a whole class full of the kid who always gets lost on field trips.”
#my electro fishing cert kept getting derailed#bc salmonberries were in season#and the entire class and instructor kept descending on them like starving bears#also the one time my boss gave me free time while we waited for the helicopter#and so i sprinted thru the marsh (having to jump from patch to patch of quote unquote islands) to see the cool lake on the other side#and it was such childlike glee i completely forgot myself for a moment#(i also fell into a Crevice and nearly broke my leg getting back lmao)#but yeah biologists Do Be Like That#biology