Waterfowl Research

Research

Nest Searching in North Dakota

Scientific Team
Dr. Frank Rohwer - Scientific Director | Dr. Elizabeth Loos - Research Director

2007 Research Symposium

Delta Graduate Student Research Project Results

History of the Delta Student Program
How Delta’s Student Program Has Advanced Our Understanding of Waterfowl

When hunters learn that Delta Waterfowl has a “student program”, most of them likely envision a bunch of college freshmen sweeping up duck droppings or writing 500-word theme papers on “what I like about ducks”. In reality Delta’s 65-year-old student program has nurtured some of the brightest minds and produced some of the most meaningful research in the history of waterfowl management.

Summer Employment with Delta Waterfowl

Delta's main mission is to provide funds, facilities, and a great environment where graduate students can do research on waterfowl and wetlands ecology. We hire research assistants to help graduate students with their research projects. Projects vary greatly but have included in the past: breeding ecology of pintails, gadwall, and lesser scaup, the effect of predators on nest success and brood survival, behavioral ecology of ducks and ducklings, and wetlands ecology and chemistry. This work is done at various sites throughout the Prairie Pothole Region, mostly in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and North Dakota. Many of the graduate students funded by Delta have worked with Delta as research assistants. If a graduate degree is something you would like to pursue, this is a great opportunity to learn about waterfowl/wetlands research, interact with students and their professors, and get to know the institutions that are key players in this field.

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