marlowe starling
tanzania
The School for Field Studies
Summer 2019
Coursework
SFS 3500: Principles of Wildlife Management
This four-credit course provided us with a general overview of wildlife management with a specific application to Tanzania and East Africa. Our professors and guest lecturers taught us about animal ecology, the Tarangire-Manyara ecosystem and the anthropocentric challenges it faces, and community-based conservation among many other topics.
In groups and independently, we recorded data on baboons, elephants and tourists (no, not a typo); created hypothetical management plans for Manyara Ranch; and used transect data we collected to evaluate illegal human interference of protected rivers.
JOU 4905: Journalism Independent Study
I added on two credits of independent study through the journalism department at the University of Florida to write an in-depth feature story. Based on my reporting in the field, research and follow-up interviews after the program, I completed a 3,000-word feature about inter-generational approaches to conservation in northern Tanzania with the guidance of environmental journalist, author and professor Cynthia Barnett, who was my editor for this piece.
The piece was published in Earth Island Journal on October 21, 2020. Click the link below to read.
Course Syllabus
Analysis of human activity near the Seaay River Basin
