Yooper Wildlife Watch

Education and Community Engagement

Yooper Wildlife Watch brings together graduate students in Biology and Postsecondary Science Education, undergraduates from all majors in the Principles of Ecology course (~200 students per year), and local high schools students from the Marquette area. While high school students participate in field days to learn about camera trapping technology and applications in ecological research, diverse undergraduates are trained throughout the semester in camera deployment, maintenance and contribute to imagery analysis. Graduate students in Postsecondary Science Education develop inquiry-based curriculum for students to use in Principles of Ecology to test fundamental ecological hypotheses using authentic ecological data the undergraduates helped generate. Graduate students in Biology use Yooper Wildlife Watch data in their thesis-based graduate research to answer questions of ecological and management importance