Angie Ayala
- 3 days ago
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 I’ve ever learned about resume writing was the exact opposite for natural resources resumes! The highlight of my week was deploying the dissolved oxygen sensors in our selected bodies of water. Our mentor brought along some of his students as well and it was fun showing them what we’ve been up to. One of the most challenging parts of this week
Jonathan Shimizu
- 3 days ago
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 wouldn’t be suffering in the field but we were disappointed when the sun was out all day, every day. Additionally, the cicadas finally decided to show up and our final plot was full of them. On some trees, it became very difficult to identify cankers because the cicadas resembled small cankers from a distance. However, we finished rating bu
Grace Follmar
- 3 days ago
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 techniques depending on the field! We also had a presentation about student loans and finances which taught me a few new things as well and was overall very helpful. This past week we spent a majority of the time working through zooplankton identifications for our project and we’ve started feeling more confident in our abilities. I’m looking
Kayanna Turner
- 3 days ago
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 samples and process them, so we were able to update our schedule to make sure we could get as many samples as possible before starting data manipulation and analysis. I’ve also gotten much faster at identifying zooplankton species as I don’t have to rely on the key nearly as much as I did initially! This week we also got to listen to several p
Jackson Keesling
- 3 days ago
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 vegetation surveys and camera data to check in the future. The wildlife in the area seemed to be more active this week as we saw red-eared sliders, northern water snakes, deer, raccoons, and, of course, plenty of cicadas. Our paper is slowly coming together and the anticipation of solidifying our findings and presenting them to our peers and me
Alexis Proudman
- 3 days ago
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 being said, they also started mating and laying nasty eggs in trees this week. I have seen way too much cicada sex in one week than anyone should see in their entire lifetime. It’s weird man. We also started a side project that involves capturing the different calls of Brood X cicadas. Some of it has been really fun, like holding cicadas and hea
Kamryn Dehn
- 3 days ago
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 future projects that I could work on during this internship. One project I'm super excited for is an idea I've had for a while, but never really had any time to work on. I want to write introductory environmental science books for children that feature different disabled characters that the readers encounter in each book. For example, in one
Alexis Lyons
- 3 days ago
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 walking up to the cameras. Unfortunately, there was a malfunction with the SD cards at those two sites so we didn’t capture the deer on camera. This past week we also deployed our dissolved oxygen sensors into some of our selected water bodies. That meant we got to suit up in waders and really get into the water. While the heat didn’t make work ea
Coby Frame
- 3 days ago
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 about different strategies for tackling student loan debt and how to allocate money wisely. I hadn’t had any formal instruction on this kind of topic before so I thought it was very insightful! However, the best part of my week was finding two different snapping turtles at Purdue Wildlife Area. One of them was digging a hole on the side of
Morgan Watkins
- 3 days ago
Morgan Watkins: Week 5 Recap
This week we spent time figuring out how to catch the Brood X cicadas. The males make the strangest distress call that sounds like a little scream when you try to grab them and it’s a bit frightening. While the females lack the organs to make these distress sounds, they still frantically flutter and try to get away. It’s unnerving trying to catch them. However, once we got the hang of it, it was cool trying to determine which of the three species of Brood X cicadas each one b
Sophia Flores
- 3 days ago
Sophia Flores: Week 5 Recap
Five weeks down, three more to go! This past week I learned more about creating resumes for natural resources and related careers, which was very different from how I was taught in the Animal Sciences department. It definitely felt weird putting more information on my resume since I’ve always been told to keep it shorter. Another interesting presentation this week, led by Dr. Goforth, was about graduate interview preparation. His presentation was very engaging because he shar
Michael Holt
- 3 days ago
Michael Holt: Week 5 Recap
This week marked the end of rating trees! We ended up rating over 2,000 trees for disease severity and now it’s time to start collecting samples. My summer class also starts next week and I’m hoping that it will aid me when it’s time to conduct statistical analyses of data for our project. The cicadas were out by the thousands and sometimes there were so many on a tree that you could hardly see the bark! Working outside in the heat with all of the bugs and humidity was challe
Dominic Liongson
- 3 days ago
Dominic Liongson: Week 5 Recap
This last week was busy for Jackson and I. Once we added more cameras and increased the amount of vegetation surveys, we had a lot more to get done. However, the extra work has provided a lot of cool findings! We had fun finding all kinds of herps out in the field like frogs, water snakes, and turtles! It’s crazy to think that we are more than halfway done now. The past five weeks have moved so fast! It’s been great getting to know everyone, learn more, and enjoy this summer
Coby Frame
- Jun 9
Coby Frame: Week 4 Recap
This week I learned the ins and outs of grad school. Throughout the week, several professors and grad students visited and gave presentations about research and grad school. Some speakers discussed their current research projects and I thought it was cool how different all of their research projects were. Some speakers also talked about the process of applying to and getting funding for grad school and that seemed a little overwhelming. However, it was very informative and it
Grace Follmar
- Jun 9
Grace Follmar: Week 4 Recap
This week we began collecting data for our project. It was rewarding to see everything that we’ve worked on the past few weeks come together, but it was still a challenge getting started and establishing a routine. I’ve gotten better at using the microphone and identifying zooplankton. Memorial Day was also very fun this week because we had a cookout and went to the local Columbian Park Zoo. It was fun hanging out with everyone and I had a great time! I’m looking forward to c
Jonathan Shimizu
- Jun 9
Jonathan Shimizu: Week 4 Recap
We are halfway through the program and Michael and I are still rating trees. So far we’ve rated about a thousand butternut trees and still have a few hundred more to go. We began organizing and rating our final plot late this past week. Thankfully, Michael and I have dramatically sped up our rating process so this final plot shouldn’t take very long. Our goal is to begin collecting samples and analyzing them in the lab by the end of next week. Even though we enjoy flagging tr
Alexis Proudman
- Jun 9
Alexis Proudman: Week 4 Recap
So basically, my project just got real. One day there were maybe 20 cicadas and the next there were like 1300. It took me an hour and a half just to count them all, and I started questioning my sanity! Hopefully I will get my revenge next week when we eat some of them. Besides that, we saw a few coyotes on our camera traps this week as well as some animals we’ve named like Henrieta the turkey, Dan the back-scratching racoon, and Jack the woodpecker. Dan’s my favorite though,
Jackson Keesling
- Jun 9
Jackson Keesling: Week 4 Recap
We are now in the heart of our program, our research is in full swing, and I couldn’t be having a better time. This past week I dealt with the poison ivy I acquired the week before while setting up some of our camera trapping sites. I took it a little slow as a result and sadly had to do more office work than I would’ve liked to. Nonetheless, I was able to learn many new skills, mainly about developing scientific papers. We had guest speakers every afternoon and each speaker
Alexis Lyons
- Jun 9
Alexis Lyons: Week 4 Recap
This week we deployed our cameras to our designated sites and we kept one out of the field to test how long the new Raspberry Pi0 battery power lasted. We went out in the mornings to change the batteries in most cameras and replaced the final battery in the afternoons to let one camera stay on overnight. During this process, we changed a few of the camera locations near the water so we could get better results. We also learned how to canoe this week in order to deploy a camer
Dominic Liongson
- Jun 9
Dominic Liongson: Week 4 Recap
This week Jackson and I checked more of our camera SD cards, which gave us some pretty good results. We captured what we thought might be a mink or weasel. Unfortunately though, Jackson’s poison ivy was pretty bad so Jessie and I went out without him and did vegetation surveys at all of our sites. Doing all of these vegetation surveys has been lots of fun and helped me learn all about the different species of vegetation! We also ended up having a lot of down time, so we decid
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