“Do we would like a sledgehammer or a mallet?”

“Sure.”

Lucy McGuire, a 2023 UW graduate and supervisor of Monica Turner’s integrative biology lab, makes a examine mark on an extended listing of drugs from which she’s studying. Graduate college students Arielle Hyperlink and Timon Keller flurry across the lab in Birge Corridor on UW–Madison’s campus, stacking tools on the desk in entrance of her.

Lengthy spools of tape measures, clip boards, a locking bucket stuffed with bear spray, bug repellent, a conveyable tent, twine, a handheld GPS …

As a pile rapidly types on the desk, Lucy inspects every bit of drugs. She needs to make certain they’ve chosen essentially the most optimum tools and assess every merchandise for wanted repairs earlier than they drive 1,300 miles west for the summer season area season. Her job entails a number of laborious organizational work, however after spending the summer season of 2022 in Yellowstone as an undergraduate researcher within the Turner lab, Lucy jumped on the alternative to assist additional advance the workforce’s analysis.