Reflections on Biodiversity and Stewardship
I was thrilled to take the Biodiversity Stewardship course, with Professor Jim Egenrieder, as my first course as a Master's student at Virginia Tech. This course taught me numerous skills that can be transferred to future courses, along with future career opportunities. Although this course was asynchronous, it definitely felt like a field-research course itself. With my classmates and myself each having specific 'study-areas' (as reflected in our class blogs), there was plenty of exploration and research to do and gather. One thing that was quite enjoyable from this asynchronous course was that my classmates and I all had 'study-areas' from regions all over the United States. We all became regional, national stewards. Within the blog posts, you can see that assignments ranged from local, to regional, to international perspectives. I gained extensive insight as to what resources there are when using mapping tools, such as the Web Soil Survey and Google's MyMa...
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