Week 2 consisted of exposure to new resources, reading and annotations in order to expand my knowledge within Writing 39C’s theme, animal science. At the beginning of the week, I focused on updating my new Twitter account, @DCSiquin. Not only did I set the basics like my profile photo and a background image, I also began following researchers and organizations within the field of animal science. As I started exploring Twitter, I also found many posts that related to research or cases of animal science subtopics like animal cognition, emotions, social groups and communication. Overall from my personal tour around Twitter, I discovered that indeed many researchers, anthropologists, zoologists and many more scientists are active within this social media platform. Without a doubt, Twitter is an essential tool when finding scientific studies, case-studies, articles and many more texts. If you wish to read more about my first time on Twitter read my previous blog post. Midway through the week, my Writing 39C class had a presentation on resources and tools provided by the librarian Shu Lin at the Ayala Science Library. The presenter talked about a various topics fundamental for the course research and projects required. Finding sources like books, articles, and also distinguishing scholarly versus popular sources were just a few of the topics covered during the presentation. One part of the presentation I believe was crucial to pay attention was when Ms. Lin went over the availability of research guides specific to the courses offered at UCI. After looking through the research guide of Writing 39C, I noticed there is an academic search for articles, news, images, and statistics. I researched well-known scientists like Barbara J. King and John Marzluff, and found many publications by them. I also took the opportunity to search species like bears and red pandas, and found a few peer-reviewed articles. When I looked for animal friendships and social groups along with the species of my interest though I had difficulty finding relevant articles. Nonetheless, with these research tools provided by the UCI Libraries, I know that after having decided the species and what realm of animal science I will research on I will have better outcomes.
Now in Week 2 after gathering and informing all the resources available, I started looking for possible organizations and researchers that study species of my interest like red pandas, brown bears and andean (spectacled) bears. One of the first things I realized was that two of these three animals are labeled as an endangered species, red pandas and andean bears. I was not able to find specific case studies on these animals, but I did find organizations that do research and conservation work. Some of the organizations I discovered include World Wildlife Fund, Red Panda Network, Spectacled Bear Conservation Society-Peru, and Wildlife Conservation Research Unit. Within these organizations I wrote down the names of the researchers and scientists leading the studies conducted by the organizations. I am still not sure which specie out of the three I will focus my research around, yet I think by next week I will have something confirmed. To find out what specie I will eventually focus on keep on reading my blogs!
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