Hi,
My name is Charles, I'm a 1st year Evolutionary Biology PhD student at Arizona State University. I have been looking into possible sources of funding to help with upcoming travel to conduct research at a zoo. Our original plan was well within our budget but things have recently changed and although these changes allow for us to complete a more thorough analysis, more money is needed to do so. I will be traveling to Chicago at the end of the month to collect fecal/salivary samples from several bears at the Brookfield Zoo. Originally, I was supposed to travel for a weekend but the zoo's welfare staff now wishes to include behavior in our research methods and has asked me to stay for two weeks. I have all of the flight covered but need a little help to cover extended housing and rental car use. I am so sorry that this is spur of the moment but it was recently determined and we are all scrambling to cover the expenses. All in all, this extra time will allow for us to better understand these beautiful creatures and to correlate certain behaviors to hormonal levels providing the bears with a hopeful, bright future.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.


Thank you,


Charles Rolsky
480.323.9993