

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...
Jackson Keesling
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...
Alexis Proudman
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...
Angie Ayala
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...
Dominic Liongson
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...
Morgan Watkins
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...
Michael Holt
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...
Kayanna Turner
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...
Sophia Flores
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...
Coby Frame
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...
Alexis Lyons
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...
Grace Follmar
Jun 30, 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...
Angie Ayala
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...
Jonathan Shimizu
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...
Grace Follmar
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...
Kayanna Turner
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...
Jackson Keesling
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...
Alexis Proudman
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...
Kamryn Dehn
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...
Alexis Lyons
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...
Coby Frame
Jun 21, 2021