Day 4

What academic/technical skills could you use on the job?
The main academic/technical skills I could use would be time management, organization, and computer skills. I think no matter where you work, these skills are some of the most important.

What forms of collaboration could you use in a project?

I could work help my mentor with something as a project I guess. Other than that, I'm not sure because the keepers are pretty busy every day doing other things.

What new things can you learn while working at your site?

There's so much I could learn from working here, and so much I've learned already. As I continue working, I supposed I will learn more about the research they're doing as it progresses. I will also learn more about what my mentor does when I spend days working with him.

How can you exhibit, showcase, or otherwise share your work?

The best way to exhibit my work would probably be in a PowerPoint presentation because then I would be able to show pictures of the work that I did and explain it.

How can your work or your skills & abilities help your company or organization?

The work I do with the keepers every day helps them because it gives them less cleaning to worry about. I'm not sure what else I would be able to help with as far as my skills and abilities go. Maybe I could organize something for them...

My Day:

I spent the day with the keepers again and we started by cleaning. After we finished cleaning the main yard, we got a visit from Celeste and another worker. They came with the collars that the trainers then took and put on the elephants. The collars have a voice recorder and GPS system so that researchers can track what elephants do in response to certain sounds that the others make. This will help them understand how the elephants communicate with each other. After I watched the keepers put the collars on, Celeste left and then we cleaned some more.

One of the keepers is getting an elephant ready so that they can put the collar on. (and there's Celeste on the left)