29 August 2020
My Farewell as a DFP Fellow
As my Fellowship is coming to a close I would like to say how grateful I am for having had an opportunity like this amidst a pandemic. I was able to meet so many great…
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28 August 2020
A Different Kind of Internship: Lessons and Final Thoughts
The entire year of 2020 has been a whirlwind filled with an unprecedented pandemic, economic uncertainty, protests in the name of racial disparity, and natural disasters. For many college students and recent graduates, this resulted…
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28 August 2020
Final Week as a DFP
After 11 weeks of hard work, I am logging off with a 50 page species report, a final presentation, many new connections within the service, and a wonderful experience. I started this internship with no…
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28 August 2020
Results and reflections: Conserving fisheries into the future
Hello all, thanks for following along on my journey as a USFWS DFP intern this summer. It’s hard for me to believe my time here is drawing to a close. It has been an immense…
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28 August 2020
The Art of the Online Interview: Interviewing People in a Post-Zoom Call
Something that might not be readily apparent to the average person is how much conversational dynamics shift when you aren’t able to talk face to face. Having to have an in-depth conversation online versus in-person…
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28 August 2020
Little Fish Going Crazy in Tanks, What is Wrong?!
A few weeks ago, I spoke about the technicalities of pond culture, where I pointed out how delicate and complex it could be to successfully grow endangered Lost River and Shortnose sucker in ponds. However,…
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