University of Alaska Fairbanks PhD student, Josh Ream, pictured with a wood frog. Ream will soon be asking Wrangell residents to tell him what they know about wood frogs and other native amphibians.
Residents of Wrangell can expect to receive a questionnaire in their post office box this month asking what they know about amphibians, specifically frogs and salamanders.
The mail survey is part of University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) student Joshua Ream’s research. Ream, 27, is pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD from UAF in ecological anthropology, which focuses on the relationship between humans and their environment, or as Ream puts it, a way to combine his “interests in both the natural and social sciences.”
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