While thousands of visitors to Algonquin Provincial Park were canoeing and camping this summer, a small band of third-year University of Toronto ecology students was hard at work collecting data and conducting experiments with reptiles and amphibians.
The group was there as part of the Research Excursion Program (REP) offered by the Faculty of Arts & Science. The program provides an opportunity for third-year students to contribute to faculty research and scholarly work in an off-campus setting.
For the students, it was a chance to get their hands dirty and their feet wet and gain valuable field research experience.
Njal Rollinson, an assistant professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been conducting research at the Wildlife Research Station in Algonquin for years and has supervised REP students for many summers.
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