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03 August 2021

Conservation from home

As a graduate student, I’ve been working from home for almost a year and a half. Now as a Fellow with the US Fish and Wildlife Service this summer, I am working remotely to write…
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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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