In today’s post, we are going to talk about what you need when you are looking for new places and new topics of research? Unfortunately, this is something we not always learn during our studies at the university, but for those who want to dedicate their life to research it is necessary.
Over the past weeks we started our logistic arrangements to start new research topics and new field sites. This search implies a series of logistic tasks, searching for new funding opportunities as well as talks and readings about those new topics in which we want to expand our research and understanding of how primates survive in fragmented landscapes.
Although we still continue doing research, specially collecting demographic data on primate populations in San Martin and Villavicencio. We are expanding our sampling to cover new areas of importance for the endemic primates of Colombian Llanos.
In a country like Colombia, finding new places for research implies a careful search of places where monkeys are present, but also places where we can do research without social unrest and basic conditions for logging, transport and food.
New topics also implies careful reading of methodologies and research done on those topics, as well as talking with people who knows more about those topics than yourself.
Depending on the topics it also implies careful review of current and old maps. Contact local people to find out how to arrange for each field trip needs and to find better places to find what we are looking for. And looking for funding to cover those field trips. Sometimes when we do our undergrad thesis, all those previous steps are already done and we don’t appreciate what it implies to have all that logistics and funding done. So next time appreciate that effort and try to involve yourself on those previous steps
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