LabLink | Davis College of Agriculture and Natural Resources

The following listings are for undergraduate students looking for paid, unpaid, workstudy, and/or RAP opportunities. If you see something you are interested in, send your resume to the WVU email on the listing.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Science to Advance Freshwater Ecosystem and Community Resilience in the Appalachians (SAFER Apps)

The project aims to develop maps that show environmental and social data for 3 watersheds in 3 states that will be used to inform community and ecosystem planning and adaptation in light of more extreme rainfall and flooding in the Appalachian Mountains.

School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Migratory Songbird Stopover Sites on Regenerating Forest Harvests

The project is aiming to affirm a model generated by citizen science data through Cornell Lab's eBird. More specifically, we are ground truthing the model on timber harvest lands through using Autonomous Recording Units (ARUs) and mist-netting. Along with bird banding, we also are collecting weather, vegetative, insect, and aquatic data to gain a better understanding of songbird concentrations across migratory pathways.

School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Bird Banding

This project is a bird banding project in the WVU Core Arboretum and Pricketts Fort State Park, with more locations to be added. Banding takes place on weekends from an hour before sunrise to about five/six hours after sunrise. This project is in early development, with the goal of banding to gather data on avian survival and reproduction.

School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Brook Trout Longterm Monitoring

Beginning in 2003 our lab has been monitoring Brook trout populations at 25 sites in the Monongahela National Forest and the Westvaco Wildlife and Ecosystem Research Forest. We collect stream habit data in the summer time (June-August) and then in the fall (October-December) we sample for Brook trout using backpack electroshockers to evaluate current population metrics. In addition, we sample Brook trout spawning habitat through the collection of sediment samples adjacent to Brook trout redds.