03 August 2021
Final Thoughts
My summer DFP (Directorate’s Fellow Program) fellowship is quickly coming to an end. Since my last blog, I’ve completed the 5-year review for the San Bernardino Mountains bladderpod, conducted a meeting with partners to discuss…
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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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