One of my favorite parts of my Scientists in Parks Fellowship was getting the chance to actually work in a practical setting on truly interdisciplinary projects. Unlike many of my fellow cohort members (who did extremely impressive work in their parks), I was not working on one project, one organism, or even in one ecosystem. …
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HELLO AGAIN FROM DINO! Soon it will be a month since I began my SIP Fellowship at Dinosaur National Monument, and boy has it been packed with new experiences! I caught an indiscriminate cuckoo bumble bee; gotten up close tours of the both Dinosaur bones in the Quarry Visitor Center and the process of taking …
The reality is that the global climate is shifting, and the United States is already experiencing erratic severe weather, uncontrollable fires, and diminishing natural resources as a result. My name is Mary Buford Turnage, I am a current M.S. candidate in Conservation Medicine at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, in Massachusetts. …
