Hi friends, Glad you’re back! My main project for the summer consists of doing different things to better manage natural resources inside Biscayne National Park. As a natural resource management assistant, I am responsible of conducting creel surveys in the Homestead Bayfront and Black Point marinas. These...
While in the field in Socorro, Texas, we experienced long days. There were dust storms, dry air, goat heads in our shoes and a scorching sun. Not being from the area, my supervisors were worried about how I’d react. Turns out I did better than...
In my last post, I briefly introduced myself and the internship I will do this summer. In this post, I want to focus on my main projects and go a little more in-depth about what I will be doing! This summer, as part of this internship...
Preserving Through Documentation For the next several weeks we will be documenting and processing the data gathered from the Rio Vista Farm. We are cleaning the laser scan data acquired in the field last week with the high definition 3D scanner of the 43 stations. This...
Introduction:Last Thursday was my last official day of being a 5th-grade Science and Social Studies teacher. A couple of months ago I found myself standing at a crossroads: Continue on in education or pursue a passion in conservation and research. After much deliberation with everyone...
My main project this summer will be assisting the incredibly knowledgeable team at Fort Raleigh as they develop a new interpretive trail. The Freedmen's Colony from 1862-1867 is an important piece of American history that highlights the stories of African Americans as they escaped slavery, making their way to...
Welcome back my dear readers! This time we are going to take a pause on the historical trip to talk about what my project this summer is all about. As previously mentioned, I am a Latino Outreach Ambassador at First State National Historical Park. I...
My projects here at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial is to reach out to the Latino community in the neighboring towns and find ways to bring them to the park. As part of that project, I’ve been working on translating the Junior Ranger Book for kids...
Hello everyone! Welcome to my first blog post-- my name is Pia Cano and I am the interpretive design intern at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site in North Carolina. While I am originally from Santa Ana, California, I have just moved to North Carolina. I was...
The sun is defiantly a relevant character here in the Sonoran desert and a solar-telescope is even more relevant. Being here with LHIP (Latino Heritage Internship Program), the goal established was to learn how to use a solar-scope and create a binder for the staff for...
For my internship I will be working under not only the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park but also their partner organization Vivia La Musica. The organization serves the immigrant youth in New Orleans by providing them the opportunity to have access to a quality...
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park, environmental remediation efforts on the Cuyahoga River birthed the park's creation after the river caught fire for the twelfth time in 1969. In order to track the resulting change in environmental health, the park's resource management department began weekly surveys...
Aloha all, I'm writing to you from Maui, Hawaii at Haleakala National Park. I've been here a little over 3 weeks now and am finally starting to settle in a bit. My work weeks are filled with learning, absorbing, and then relaying information to park visitors...
Crawl. Walk. And then run. In season three of the HBO hit series, "The Wire," Isiah Whitlock Jr.’s character relayed this message to Idris Elba’s character. While the context (and setting) differs, I reflected on this saying as the ideal way to develop and learn...
My main project in Haleakala will be an interpretational mix of a few things consisting of geology, hawaiian culture, and endemic birds and fish to the area! I will be presenting a 30 minute educational interpretational talk that will encompass all of the topics listed below. My ...
Dear reader,Welcome back to the east coast, where the skies have been filled with smoke from Canadian wild fires and rain that has been matched with temperatures under 60 degrees. That hasn’t stopped the season from moving forward! Since I last posted, the teams were...
Time flies! It's week five and I am starting to dive into my main project this summer. I am working on the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area Park Planning Portfolio and the General Management Plan (GMP) Review Memo draft. Last week, I completed the required training...
I am standing in the middle of farmland called the Hole in the Donut. This is one of the numerous solution holes that dot the landscape of the Everglades. Solution holes are karst potholes that formed when the sea level and the water table were lower...
Hello everyone! My projects at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial include contacting the neighbouring cities surrounding Lincoln Boyhood and attending events happening in those cities. For example, my first project (which is the biggest) is happening in Dale, Indiana and it is a Latino Carnival on June...
Crossing borders George Pullman was a man who knew what he wanted out of his business ventures. After amassing his riches in Colorado during the gold rush, selling tools and necessities to people in search of gold, he eventually made his way back to Chicago. There...