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Bio 492- Field placement

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Open Closing on December 14, 2024
MacEwan University
MacEwan University
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Barb Hudkins
Experiential Learning Facilitator
(16)
6
Timeline
  • January 14, 2025
    Experience start
  • April 11, 2025
    Experience end
Experience
10 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Alberta, Canada
Any company type
Any industries
Categories
Skills
No skills listed
Learner goals and capabilities

Student Profile:

Skills already have:


Very generally, students can be expected to bring a basic knowledge to a placement in the following areas:

  • Evolutionary processes and outcomes
  • The transmission, exchange, and expression of information.
  • Connections between structure and function.
  • Transformation and manipulation of energy and matter.
  • Diversity.
  • Relationships between biotic and abiotic elements at a micro and macro level.


Skills to be developed:


Students are also working towards acquiring and mastering the following more practical skills:

  • Evaluate biological research.
  • Demonstrate competency in standard lab and/ or field techniques.
  • Applying biological knowledge.
  • Effectively communicate biological concepts using a variety of media.


Learners
Undergraduate
Advanced levels
10 learners
Project
120 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Individual projects
Up to 1 team(s) or 5 learner(s) per project.
Each learner can join up to one team
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Challenge statement 


Students will apply X (concepts and theory) during this project while also developing and engaging in X (WIL related outcomes/competencies). 


The major learning outcomes of this project include(course learning outcomes translated to plain/business language) :

  • X, 
  • Y,
  • Z

Add expected outcomes and deliverables as per template

Project timeline
  • January 14, 2025
    Experience start
  • April 11, 2025
    Experience end
Project Examples

The emphasis of these projects is for students to experience how their course theories are applied within workplace settings and/or addressing industry challenges. There could be a variety of projects that achieve this.


As a guide to consider what projects your organization would be interested in submitting, below are some examples of potential projects:


The emphasis of these projects is for students to experience how biological knowledge are applied within workplace settings and/or addressing industry challenges. There could be a variety of projects that achieve this. As a guide to consider what projects your organization would be interested in submitting, below are some examples of potential projects:


1) Land Stewardship: land restoration and conservation biology 

This opportunity involves working with the Edmonton & Area Land Trust (EALT) as a Land Stewardship Assistant during the Fall 2024 semester. In this role, the student will support EALT staff in completing land stewardship activities once per week at various EALT sites within 150 km of Edmonton. Students will accompany staff to field sites to complete activities such as tree planting, restoration work, trail maintenance, barbed wire removal, plant and wildlife surveying, and monitoring of Conservation Easement. In addition, the work will involve some computer support, such as writing blogs or social media posts about their experiences, data entry from the field, and identifying wildlife in camera photos and/ or acoustic recording units. There may also be opportunities to help EALT staff in running volunteer events.

 

2) Draft Title Here 

The dendrochronology (study of tree rings) group could offer an intern the opportunity to work closely with a PhD student in helping process tree ring samples from the Yukon and from the Northwest Territories. I think the overall focus of the group is the study of the affects of climate change on, broadly, forestry and forests.

 

3) Biology Undergraduate Lab Technician

A placement exists in which a student shadows and helps prepare biological reagents, maintain biological equipment, and set-up undergraduate lab spaces for undergraduate teaching labs. Work would be directed by experienced lab technicians with the focus on the day-to-day duties and responsibilities required to ensure undergraduate labs are ready for student work.


Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Community Partners will provide a dedicated supervisor for the student or team of students on this project.

The supervisor will provide ongoing communication, project direction, and feedback, including feedback at the midway and end point of the project