Wildlife Student Resources

THE WILDLIFE SOCIETY

National certification process (highly recommended!)

Job/Internship Links:

http://careers.wildlife.org/home/index.cfm?site_id=8764

http://wfscjobs.tamu.edu/job-board/

http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/career-services/352-job-websites/282-fish-wildlife-and-conservation-biology-job-websites

Statistics/programming (r) links:

http://www.statsoft.com/Textbook/Elementary-Statistics-Concepts/button/1

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFAYD0dt5xCzTQHDhMPZwBoaAXWeVhZzg

http://swirlstats.com/students.html

Spatial processing (Arcgis) links:

http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/maps/gis/tutorials.html

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-521-spatial-database-management-and-advanced-geographic-information-systems-spring-2003/index.htm

http://training.esri.com/gateway/index.cfm?fa=search.results&searchterm=&search=Search&cannedsearch=2&OrderBy=CourseTitle%20asc&AllPage=All

Graduate School Information:

The majority of graduate schools that have a "Wildlife" program (often called wildlife or natural resources) provide tuition remission AND a monthly salary/stipend. This is usually referred to as a GA [graduate assistant]/GRA [graduate research assistant]/GTA [graduate teaching assistant]. GTA's require that you help teach a class to get your tuition remission and your stipend. If you are applying to a school without a pre-arranged GA, most departments have a few TA lines of funding available if you can figure out a project.

Here are some links at prominent wildlife schools that discuss a thesis (MS) or dissertation-based (PhD) program [NOT A CERTIFICATE, etc]:

http://www.wec.ufl.edu/grad/admissions.php

http://forestandwildlifeecology.wisc.edu/graduate-study-application-process

http://fw.oregonstate.edu/content/graduate

http://www.esf.edu/graduate/awards.htm

http://www.montana.edu/ecology/gradinfo.html (see assistantship at bottom)

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/cosam/departments/biology/grad/information/

Good Graduate Schools:

There are many great graduate schools. However, depending on your interests, other schools may be better. For this reason, the faculty mentor you work with is just as, if not more than, important as the school you attend.