Summer 2011: Aquatic Invert and Waterfowl Technician in the Yukon Flats

View of the flats from the float plane

Our makeshift lab

A black bear near our campsite

My field gettup

A beautiful mural in Fairbanks

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Plot C the second time around... lots of rain this summer

Dissecting a grebelet

The view from our end-of-season vacation weekend

PALO

A friendly trio

Tessa, Me, Morgan, Connor, and Liz

Fireweed, the end of the summer

A full day's harvest

Senior Year of College

 

Hash and I on the NAU Challenge course

Lake Mary Picnic- Meghan, Emily, Me, Laurie

Tortoise scat on a desert tortoise survey in Aravaipa Canyon

 

Us being us

 

Montezuma Well, my research site

 

My 22nd birthday, coming home from a slimy research trip to a turtle cake!

 

Hash and I feeding deer while volunteering at the Grand Canyon Deer Farm

The best of our NAU chapter at the Wildlife Society Conferene

Uncle Jimmy, Chris, Me, Hash, and Java wine tasting in the WA gorge area

 

Bird banding at the Hassayampa River Preserve

Antelope Canyon

Tanya, Emily, Me, Hash hiking Mt Humphrey's

Marylynn Quartarolli, me, and Dr Shuster at the Undergraduate Research Symposium

Friendship Bracelets

Graduation with Emily and Hash

Summer 2010: Sea Turtle Internship at Bald Head Island Conservancy

I want to make some blog posts to keep everyone up to date on my adventures, and also for me to reflect on. I am starting with my position as a Sea Turtle Intern at Bald Head Island Conservancy a year and a half ago. Here is the summer in a summary of photos...

The crew of interns: Molly, Mary Mack, Alyssa, Liz, Kaitlyn, Andrew, Dave, Patrick, Brett, Wilson, Maureen, Kit, Sam, and me.

 

 

Baby Ramses

 

Sunset

 

 

Salt marsh from the light house

Patrolling in the UTV

First false crawl tracks

 

 

First nesting loggerhead!

I realized I love teaching kids (and excited adults)

First documented leatherback nesting on our island

Research project with periwinkle snails

I LOVE the marsh

Volunteering with bird rehab at Mary Ellen's

A day at a sea turtle rehab center

Me and one of my best friends, Kit, on our day off

Me and my close friend, Patrick

Hatching babies!

Leading babies down the runway

Cute

Public nest excavation

A rescued baby

Baby leatherback after release

Final count on the board