{"id":218,"date":"2021-03-10T02:39:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/?p=218"},"modified":"2021-03-10T02:40:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T02:40:11","slug":"laurie-harrer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/2021\/03\/10\/laurie-harrer\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurie Harrer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MS Fall 2017 (now instructor at Oregon State University &#8211; Cascades)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I have worked in various fish and wildlife positions across the Western United States. I worked for the Birds and Burns project at Montana State University where I earned my B.S. in Fish and Wildlife Science. After graduating, I interned at an environmental consulting company in Tucson, AZ, where I participated in a wide variety of avian, reptilian and plant surveys. Over the last couple of years I have been working at a pharmaceutical research and development company in Bend, Oregon, but I am very excited to get back into wildlife at OSU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Master\u2019s project in the Levi lab focuses on bears\u2019 roles as seed dispersers in the Southeastern Alaskan ecosystem. Specifically, I am using qualitative and quantitative methods to determine which species consumes the largest proportion of berries from the widely dispersed shrub,&nbsp;<em>Oplopanax horridus<\/em>&nbsp;(Devil\u2019s club). Due to the nature in which bears consume&nbsp;<em>O. horridus<\/em>, I am also researching this shrub\u2019s potential to noninvasively monitor bear movement and density in this habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS Fall 2017 (now instructor at Oregon State University &#8211; Cascades) I have worked in various fish and wildlife positions across the Western United States. I worked for the Birds and Burns project at Montana State University where I earned my B.S. in Fish and Wildlife Science. After graduating, I interned at an environmental consulting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agsci-labs.oregonstate.edu\/levit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}