Nariah Mathis

Due to my health constantly fluctuating, when I found this website that I could still volunteer for, I was quite ecstatic. Through this website I got to help those researching species of animals from different groups (mammals, insects, etc.). By following some instructions they had specific to the species they were studying. The first one that I did was a research project about different flying insects. We had to look at samples of different insects in order to classify and put them in different groups for research. I can admit that this one took the longest because you had to be very tedious with the work. The next I did was a frog find. In order to do this one, I had to listen to an audio to see if there were any frog sounds, and if I did hear anything, I had to classify it based on the guide they gave me so I wouldn't be incorrect. At first it was confusing, but after a few, I started to get the hang of it. Then I did a dolphin watch. What we did for that one was look at 5-10 second videos, then explain what dolphins were doing in the videos and what was around them. It was to see how dolphins react in different environments. The last one that I did was the wildlife watch. We looked at a series of photos to see what types of wildlife were out there, how many were they, and other classifications to add to their data. When doing this, I found a deeper love for animals and how they are in their environments. I also enjoyed the one with frogs the most because I never realized that different frogs make different sounds, so it was very fun to learn while also helping with research.