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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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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31 July 2021
The Importance of Student Participation
This past week, many of the students in the May cohort of the Directorate Fellow Program (DFP) with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) did a round of presentations. These presentations were for projects…
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31 July 2021
Achieving Recovery for the San Bruno Elfin Butterfly
I am in the last week of my FWS fellowship and I’m sad to see this experience coming to a close. These last few weeks have been my busiest. Since my last post, I’ve had…
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31 July 2021
Using Data Visualization for Conservation Needs
In science, the concept of data visualization has been rising in its importance. Data visualization is simply the visual or graphical representation of data and information,done through maps, graphs, and other forms of charts. Data…
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