Wrapping Up the Summer and Looking Toward the Future

Hi everyone! I can’t believe that I’m already writing my last blog post of the summer. Time has really flown by during this internship. Last week I (along with my SIP Fellows cohort) had the opportunity to present my SIP project at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Montreal, Canada. It was so …

How Taking Breaks Has Increased My Productivity

Hi folks! It’s Ally here, checking in from Bozeman, MT with the Greater Yellowstone Inventory and Monitoring Network (GRYN). I’m over halfway done with my internship, which is crazy! In the past few weeks, I’ve spent most of my time working on my computer to analyze water quality data from the Yellowstone River. Some days …

Resource Monitoring During a Natural Disaster

Hi everyone! I’m Ally, a master’s student studying stream ecology at Utah State University. My thesis research focuses on greenhouse gas emissions from natural rivers and human-constructed canals. I am interested broadly in the environmental factors influencing water quality, and how water quality is being affected by humans and climate change. In my free time, …