TOWARD A BETTER WORLD FOR OWLS
About Me
Hello, I'm Thomas Wedewer, a 1st year Psychology major at the University of California Santa Cruz.
I care about reducing human-caused harm to owls. When owls are exposed to toxic anticoagulant rodenticide, they usually die slow, painful deaths. I cannot be a passive bystander to this issue, so I decided to do something about it.
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Why do I care about owls? I'm intrigued by birds who stick to the shadows, yet serve as a keystone species across many ecosystems. Although owls often go unnoticed, their absence and the resulting chaos within their ecosystem would not.
-WRITING 60 -
(formerly Writing 39C)
Writing 60's mission is to advance students in their writing journey through a combination of traditional writing practice and modern multimedia (combining writing with images, video, audio, etc.) projects.
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My work in this course included reading/analyzing scientific articles, multimodal research, reviewing my peer's work as a two-way improvement activity, and writing in styles including: traditional academic, science communication (research findings made simple & easy to understand), personal reflection pieces, and multimedia projects (located in the Writing Showcase & Scicomm Article sections of this website).
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My research focused on how owl populations are suffering as a result of being poisoned when their prey has ingested anticoagulant rodenticides (rat poison).
My blog contains weekly progress updates from my Twitter journey.
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As a bonus, we made the world a little better for animals than we found it.
