Jackson Keesling
Jun 30, 2021
Jackson Keesling: Week 6 Recap
This week we finished vegetation surveys, which felt great! It’s one of the first major parts of the project that we have completed and...
Alexis Proudman
Jun 30, 2021
Alexis Proudman: Week 6 Recap
This week, I had the opportunity to record the sounds of distressed cicadas, aka their screams. If you've ever played Lego Star Wars and...
Angie Ayala
Jun 30, 2021
Angie Ayala: Week 6 Recap
This week we were given the opportunity to watch some presentations from the American Society of Mammalogy and gain a general...
Dominic Liongson
Jun 30, 2021
Dominic Liongson: Week 6 Recap
This past week I had to leave for a portion of it, so I didn’t do too much. However, we did get to pull some SD cards and conduct more...
Morgan Watkins
Jun 30, 2021
Morgan Watkins: Week 6 Recap
Week six marked the last week of cicada surveys and camera data collection. The cicadas seemed to have disappeared just as swiftly as...
Michael Holt
Jun 30, 2021
Michael Holt: Week 6 Recap
Only two weeks are left, but I’m looking forward to the rest of this program! We finished sampling all of our trees and next week we’ll...
Kayanna Turner
Jun 30, 2021
Kayanna Turner: Week 6 Recap
This past week was spent collecting the last of our mesocosm samples, both zooplankton and water quality, and processing each of them. We...
Sophia Flores
Jun 30, 2021
Sophia Flores: Week 6 Recap
Six weeks down, two more to go! This week I got to listen to several graduate research presentations virtually from a conference that was...
Coby Frame
Jun 30, 2021
Coby Frame: Week 6 Recap
This week we began to consolidate our data into one excel file. We started on some of our data analysis, but we realized the method we...
Alexis Lyons
Jun 30, 2021
Alexis Lyons: Week 6 Recap
This week patience was key. Research is sometimes messy and inefficient, and that can be challenging, especially since our internship is...
Grace Follmar
Jun 30, 2021
Grace Follmar: Week 6 Recap
This week we collected the last batch of zooplankton samples from our mesocosms. We’ve almost finished all of our identifications and by...
Angie Ayala
Jun 21, 2021
Angie Ayala: Week 5 Recap
This week we learned how to write a resume for natural resources related positions and it was very enlightening. Just about everything...
Jonathan Shimizu
Jun 21, 2021
Jonathan Shimizu: Week 5 Recap
It was supposed to rain this week. It did not rain. It was hot and humid instead. Michael and I were hoping for rain this past week so we...
Grace Follmar
Jun 21, 2021
Grace Follmar: Week 5 Recap
One of the cool things I learned this week was how to build a good resume. I didn’t know that there were different resume practices and...
Kayanna Turner
Jun 21, 2021
Kayanna Turner: Week 5 Recap
Over the course of this past week we were able to conduct our sampling as normal. We learned just how long it would take to gather our...
Jackson Keesling
Jun 21, 2021
Jackson Keesling: Week 5 Recap
Week 5 involved a lot of tough field work. It was our first week of having 15 camera traps up, so we anticipate having to do a lot of...
Alexis Proudman
Jun 21, 2021
Alexis Proudman: Week 5 Recap
This week was much better than the last. The cicadas finally started heading up into the trees and now there are less to count! That...
Kamryn Dehn
Jun 21, 2021
Kamryn Dehn: Week 5 Recap
Week 5 was pretty laid back for me! I continued working on assigning standards to the Freedom Seekers curriculum, and brainstormed a few...
Alexis Lyons
Jun 21, 2021
Alexis Lyons: Week 5 Recap
This week my partner and I deployed our first round of cameras with new SD cards and at two of our sites we found evidence of deer...
Coby Frame
Jun 21, 2021
Coby Frame: Week 5 Recap
This week I learned a lot about financial skills because we had a speaker come in to talk about budgeting and student loans. He taught us...