Utah Valley University

It depends on the research project. On my projects (looking at an overall project) it was usually 1-3 weeks of data collection, another 50-70 hours of data analysis, 20 hours of prepping a presentation for a conference. But that doesn't include literature reviews, coming up with a hypothesis and ...

My degree helped me to do interdisciplinary work with other fields. I worked a lot with the geology and environmental science/Earth science department because it helps to have botanist on field excursions and putting plant ecology in perspective in regards to project about rocks or water. You can...