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...
