Find below the list of research projects and sites participating in the 2022 ESA/USGS Cooperative Summer Field Training Program
Alaska
Nearshore marine ecosystem studies in Southcentral Alaska
Intern: Karen Robles
Project Supervisor: Dan Esler
Field Center: Brown University
Duty Location: Anchorage, AK
Arizona
Enhancing soil health on degraded rangelands in the southwestern U.S.
Intern: Sarah Costanzo
Project Supervisor: Seth Munson
Field Center: UC Davis
Duty Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Bat foraging ecology in the San Juan River
Intern: Rachel Deahl
Project Supervisor: Anya Metcalfe
Field Center: New Jersey Institute of Technology
Duty Location: Flagstaff, AZ
California
Sacramento-San Joaquin Continuous Water Quality Monitoring
Intern: Hieu Ly
Project Supervisor: Brian Bergamaschi
Field Center: Oregon State University
Duty Location: Sacramento, California
Colorado
Past Perspectives of Water in the West
Intern: Brand Richter
Project Supervisors: Rebecca Brice and Lesleigh Anderson
Field Center: University of North Texas
Duty Location: Denver, Colorado
Florida
Burmese Python Movement and Habitat Use
Intern: Jose Torres
Project Supervisors:Kristen Hart
Field Center: Oregon State University
Duty Location: Davie, Fl
Idaho
Effects of seed predation by harvester ants on sagebrush steppe restoration
Intern: Scott Fordham
Project Supervisor: David Pilliod
Field Center: University of Michigan
Duty Location: Boise, ID
Investigating plant-soil interactions to support restoration in sagebrush steppe ecosystems
Intern: Molly Long
Project Supervisor: Brynne Lazarus
Field Center: Lawrence University
Duty Location: Boise, ID
Kootenai River hydraulic development and simulation
Intern: Ezra Grey
Project Supervisor: Ryan Fosness
Field Center: University of Alaska
Duty Location: Boise, ID
Science for adaptive management of fire, invasives, and restoration in western landscapes
Intern: Sophia Steppe
Project Supervisor: Matthew Germino
Field Center: University of Louisville
Duty Location: Boise, ID
Indiana
Developing Visitor Impact Metrics for Great Lakes Coastal Dune Landscapes
Intern: Janiece Jefferson
Project Supervisor:Noel Pavlovic
Field Center: St.Edward’s University
Duty Location: Chesterton, IN
Effects of landscape connectivity on native bee nesting behavior
Intern: Keegan Nichols
Project Supervisor: Ralph Grundel
Field Center: Austin College
Duty Location: Chesterton, IN
Maryland
Machine Learning and Classification of Box Turtles in a Capture-Recapture Study
Intern: Emily Wapman
Project Supervisor: Andy Royle
Field Center: UC Santa Barbara
Duty Location: Laurel, MD
Michigan
Deploy and evaluate innovative sea lamprey control tools
Intern: Ian Chapman
Project Supervisor: Nicholas Johnson
Field Center: Iowa State University
Duty Location: Millersburg, MI
Developing new, sustainable control strategies for an invasive wetland grass (Phragmites australis)
Intern: Margaret Kimpling
Project Supervisor: Kurt Kowalski
Field Center: Georgia Tech
Duty Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Taking advantage of high water levels in the Great Lakes to improve management of a persistent invasive wetland grass
Intern: Priya Gahir
Project Supervisor: Wes Bickford
Field Center: University of Michigan
Duty Location: Ann Arbor, MI
North Carolina
Understanding the impacts of urbanization on streams in the Southeastern USA
Intern: Braedon Lineman
Project Supervisor: Kristina Hopkins
Field Center: Montana State University
Duty Location: Raleigh, NC
North Dakota
Assessing the Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Wetland Restoration in the Conservation Reserve Program: Measurements, Modeling, and Scaling Changes in Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes
Intern: Conor Judge
Project Supervisors: Sheel Bansal and Jacob Meier
Field Center: Central Michigan University
Duty Location: Jamestown, ND
Intern: Ashley Bartling
Project Supervisors: Sheel Bansal and Jacob Meier
Field Center: Cal Poly Pomona
Duty Location: Jamestown, ND
Linking Grey Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma mavortium diaboli) Lengths to Biomass and Population Structure in Prairie Pothole Wetlands
Intern: Devin Rehrig
Project Supervisor: Kyle McLean
Field Center: Mississippi State University
Duty Location: Jamestown, ND
Improving pollinator habitat in the Great Plains
Intern: Shannon Reilly
Project Supervisor: Clint Otto
Field Center: University of California, Davis
Duty Location: Jamestown, ND
Ohio
Estuarine Shoreline Change
Intern: Danielle Studer
Project Supervisor: Kathryn Smith
Field Center: Allegheny College
Duty Location: Girard, OH
Pennsylvania
Near real-time water-quality monitoring and modeling in York County, Pennsylvania
Intern: Alice Nguyen
Project Supervisor: Jeffrey Chaplin
Field Center: Saint Edward’s University
Duty Location: Central Pennsylvania (Primarily in York County)
Utah
Assessing impacts of aridification, drought, and land-use on drylands of the Colorado Plateau
Intern: Gigi Otten
Project Supervisor: Michael Duniway
Field Center: University of Minnesota
Duty Location: Moab, UT
Virginia
Effects of Intentional or Accidental Releases of Oil and Gas (OG) Wastes in the Environment
Intern: Stefan Anthopoulos
Project Supervisor: Isabel Cozzarelli
Field Center: Eckerd College
Duty Location: Reston, VA
National Land Imaging Strategic Communications
Intern: Nadia Naji
Project Supervisor: Timothy Stryker
Field Center: California State University Fullerton
Duty Location: Reston, VA
Natural Flood and Drought Variability in Lacustine Archives
Intern: Amelia Jelic
Project Supervisor: Jessica Rodysill
Field Center: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Duty Location: Reston, VA
Stream and wetland ecosystems: measuring changes in functions due to management and climate change
Intern: Daria Maslyukova
Project Supervisor:Greg Noe
Field Center: George Mason University
Duty Location: Reston, VA
Wetlands as carbon sinks: impacts of climate and land-use change on wetland carbon storage
Intern: Kendalyn Town
Project Supervisors: Miriam Jones and Deb Willard
Field Center: Central Michigan University
Duty Location: Reston, VA
West Virginia
Brook trout vulnerability to drought: eastern component of USGS national integrated ecohydrological research and monitoring plan
Intern: Joann Lam
Project Supervisor: Craig Snyder
Field Center: California State University Fullerton
Duty Location: Kearneysville, WV