03 August 2021
The San Francisco Estuary and Longfin Smelt
Longfin smelt (Spirinchus thaleichthys) is a fish species that is found along the Pacific coast from Alaska to California. A distinct population segment (DPS) exists in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, and this population has undergone…
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03 August 2021
A Case for Optimism
As I come to my final weeks as a Directorate Fellows Program intern at Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, I find myself reflecting on the many dichotomies of this place and my last 11 weeks…
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02 August 2021
Making New Connections
Latino Conservation Week was a very special opportunity for me. It gave me the space to plan and execute my own programming with a ton of support from my supervisor and the whole staff. I…
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02 August 2021
Building Confidence and Becoming a Leader
I’m writing this post a few weeks after my Latino Conservation Week event which happened on July 24th, which I’d say was a pretty big success. For my event I put together a clean-up event…
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01 August 2021
Wrapping Up
This week marks the last week of my Directorate Fellowship program. Eleven weeks has quickly come and gone and looking back on what I have learned and accomplished is astonishing. My project was a Species…
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31 July 2021
Trials and Tribulations of Field Work
A proposed project that requires fieldwork demands a lot of meticulous and thought-through plans for how the data will be collected and how it will answer the proposed questions. When my coworker and I were…
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