As a wildlife field technician, Luke Metherell combines job, hobby and homework on weeklong backpacking trips in the mountains. A biology student at University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), Metherell spent most of his summer deep in Chugach State Park observing and recording Dall sheep behavior for days at a time. He spent so much time with sheep that by August he could identify individual personalities among the herd. Read more.
