{"id":27122,"date":"2018-11-06T18:52:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=27122"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:57:22","slug":"in-your-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=27122","title":{"rendered":"In your backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Allison Duprey, environmental\u00a0sciences major and marine sciences minor, and Andrew Zachman, environmental\u00a0sciences major, experience new opportunities through hands-on fieldwork \u2014 right here, on Carolina\u2019s campus.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"has-content-area\">\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"has-content-area\">\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In Your Backyard\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0r-tBtDsHZc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Climate change affects the timing of spring leaf growth, insect activity, bird migration and breeding.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bio.unc.edu\/people\/faculty\/hurlbert\/\">Allen Hurlbert<\/a>, associate professor in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bio.unc.edu\/\">biology department<\/a>, leads undergraduate students in surveying arthropods, such as caterpillars, beetles and spiders, to see if plants, insects and birds all respond to climate change to the same degree.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students like Carolina sophomore Allison Duprey and senior Andrew Zachman have been visiting the same trees every week in Chapel Hill and Raleigh to measure the abundance and size of arthropods. This data will be used to relate trends in arthropod populations to bird populations in the same areas.<\/p>\n<p>The study is part of a citizen science project, called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caterpillarscount.unc.edu\/\">Caterpillars Count!<\/a>, that encourages people across the country to collect their own surveys and contribute to the data collection. For Zachman, this program gives him a head start on his future career. \u201cI think a lot of opportunities are going to stem from having research experience,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s the direction I want to go in so the earlier I can get started in doing research the better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/endeavors.unc.edu\/\">Read more research stories on Endeavor Magazine\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Story by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/discover\/in-your-backyard\/\">UNC Research<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Duprey and Andrew Zachman experience new opportunities through hands-on fieldwork \u2014 right here, on Carolina\u2019s 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