B.A. in Environmental Studies
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
Felix Ratcliff graduated from UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) with a BA in Environmental Studies in December 2006. He focused on sustainable agriculture and natural history while at UCSC, and has since pursued his interest in natural history. In the spring of 2007 he was a teaching assistant for a natural history field class taught through Humboldt State University. Felix spent the summer interning at UC Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. This internship took place mainly in the field and exposed him to various kinds of field work, mainly with birds and mammals. The fieldwork was a mixture of observational studies (auditory and visual surveys of birds), field collection and museum specimen preparation of both birds and mammals. Since his internship ended at UC Berkeley, Felix has been working for Condor Country Consulting where he has taken part in construction site monitoring, California Red-Legged Frog monitoring, San Francisco Garter Snake trapping, Swainson’s Hawk monitoring, bird nest surveys, road mortality surveys, herpetological and small mammal trapping, GPS surveys of monitored areas, and recording data from animal track collection stations.