Find below the list of research projects and sites participating in the 2021 ESA/USGS Cooperative Summer Field Training Program
California
Studies of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Landslides and Tsunamis
Intern: Grady Jakobsberg
Project Supervisor: Walter Mooney
Field Center: University of Vermont
Duty Location: Remote or Menlo Park, CA 94025
Intern: Madison Panzino
Project Supervisor: Walter Mooney
Field Center: California State University Fullerton
Duty Location: Remote or Menlo Park, CA 94025
Florida
Sea Turtle Movements and Habitat-Use, and American Crocodile Nest Monitoring
Intern: Kyler Plouffe
Project Supervisor: Kristen Hart
Field Center: University of California, Santa Cruz
Duty Location: Davie, Florida
Indiana
Landscape Perspective in Conserving the Threatened Great Lakes Sand Dune Endemic, Pitcher’s Thistle.
Intern: Bethany Lee
Project Supervisor: Noel B. Pavlovic
Field Center: University of Louisville
Duty Location: USGS station in Chesterton in the lands of Indiana Dunes National Park, or virtual if required by COVID-19
Landscape Connectivity and Native Bee Conservation in the Great Lakes Basin
Intern: Emily Xie
Project Supervisor: Ralph Grundel
Field Center: University of California, Berkeley
Duty Location: Chesterton, Indiana
Maryland
Quantitative Turtle Analysis Project
Intern: Jackie Luu
Project Supervisor: Andy Royle
Field Center: George Mason University
Duty Location: Laurel MD
Massachusetts
Greenhouse Gas Cycling in Managed Coastal Wetlands
Intern: Simone Gibson
Project Supervisor: Meagan Eagle
Field Center: Oregon State University
Duty Location: Woods Hole, MA
Michigan
Deploy and Evaluate Supplemental Sea Lamprey Control Tools
Intern: Andrew Shapiro
Project Supervisor: Nicholas S. Johnson
Field Center: University of New Hampshire
Duty Location: Millersburg, Michigan
New York
Surface Water and Ground Water Data Collection
Intern: Lucca Sterrer
Project Supervisor: Andrew Waite
Field Center: University of Vermont
Duty Location: Troy, NY
Oregon
Purple Martin use of BLM Regeneration Harvests and National Forest Restoration Sites
Intern: Emily Cook
Project Supervisor: Joan Hagar
Field Center: University of Oregon
Duty Location: Western Oregon
Oregon Spotted Frog recovery
Intern: Kayleigh Maraziegos
Project Supervisor: Michael Adams
Field Center: Florida Souther College
Duty Location: Corvallis, OR
Pennsylvania
Assessment of Pesticides and Characterization of Groundwaters in Pennsylvania’s Triassic Lowland Hydrogeologic Setting
Intern: Denise Del Rosario
Project Supervisor: Matthew Conlon
Field Center: George Mason University
Duty Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania
Surface Water and Ground Water Data Collection
Intern: Hallie Dickerson
Project Supervisor: Andrew Waite
Field Center: Austin College
Duty Location: Milford, PA
Near Real-Time water-Quality Monitoring and Modeling in York County, Pennsylvania
Intern: Kinsey Funk
Project Supervisor: Jeff Chaplin
Field Center: Oregon State University
Duty Location: Central Pennsylvania, Primarily in York County
South Dakota
Examining the Demographic and Community Response and Recovery of Northern Great Plains Grasslands to Droughts in the Context of Grazing and Climate Change
Intern: Kassandra Rodriguez
Project Supervisor: Amy Symstad
Field Center: California State University Fullerton
Duty Location: Wind Cave National Park (Hot Springs, SD)
Utah
Assessing Impacts of Acidification, Drought, and Land-Use on Drylands of the Colorado Plateau
Intern: Gavin Belfry
Project Supervisor: Mike Duniway, Erika Geiger
Field Center: University of Tennessee
Duty Location: Moab, UT
Washington
Habitat Classification and Change Detection Willapa and Billy Frank Junior National Wildlife Refuges, WA
Intern: Gavin Kellerman
Project Supervisor: Susan De La Cruz, Isa Woo
Field Center: University of California, Santa Cruz
Duty Location: Virtual