This fourth week has been complicated for me and for the team at San Juan National Historic Site. Because we’ve had to study some abandoned historical artifacts, we don’t know its “true” origin and its historical context. For this reason, my specialty is to disseminate...
When I first heard the name William Floyd, as a Long Island native my first thought is "Oh that parkway out by Mastic?". Unfortunately, this is a pretty common occurrence in my area, as no one ever seems to remember the man after which the...
This week during my internship at Colorado National Monument, I had the opportunity to learn and experience a whole new set of skills. Instead of surveying at White Rocks this week for historic and archaeological sites, I worked on historic walls that had been built...
This week's research demonstrated the development of a concept that quickly spread throughout education in America and Topeka. The movement to "Americanize" children and their families was an effort to cleanse immigrant communities of their non-American habits (although this affected other communities, for our purposes I...
Last Friday, the team and I went out to Loop Road Education Center where we met with Rick Anderson, a passionate South Floridian whose family has been here for many generations. Rick began his talk by asking all of the audience members to introduce themselves,...
It has been a wonderful first week here at the Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitor Center at Channel Islands National Park. So far I have been on the mainland only. That will change next week when I go out to Anacapa Island for a whole 8 days...
¡Hola! [caption id="attachment_5668" align="alignleft" width="397"] An unidentified moth that I found outside the Education Center.[/caption] This week I was working on the Dempster Project down at the Education Center. (It was especially fun being at the Education Center because I saw the rangers...
Here we are! After a hectic Final's week, last good-byes and see you laters, and of course commencement, we finally arrived in Arizona. As I type, I settle into what will be my home for the next several weeks. Coronado National Monument is quite a...
Our cross-country drive was long and exhausting but filled with many amazing moments. My friend Tim and I went through places neither of us have ever seen as we drove from California to Tennessee through the southwest along the U.S. Mexican Border area. Our route...
Life on the island is a bit kooky, laid back, and each day is more unique than the last. From kayaking in the pitch black ocean waters completely surrounded by glowing blue bioluminescence to laying in the prairie fields watching bald eagles glide...
While I was not set to begin my internship until June 1st, I was given the opportunity to participate in the first ever International Migratory Bird Day Celebration at Sailor's Haven on Fire Island on May 17th. International Migratory Bird Day highlights the importance of...
This week's highlight of my HAF internship at Biscayne National Park was rolling out my plans for Latino Conservation Week. My ideas were not only appreciated, but supported and embellished by the motivation of my Ranger counterpart, Yelitza Sepulveda. Together we have big plans for...
I have just about completed my first week working at the National Park Service Intermountain Regional Office and it's been a fun week. I spent two days driving from Chino, California to Denver, Colorado to move out for the summer. My mom, dad and brother...
[caption id="attachment_5854" align="alignright" width="251"] On the roof top of the Department of the Interior building for the Secretary of the Interior's Historic Preservation Awards.[/caption] I’m currently on my third week of the internship. I have been enjoying my time both at work and exploring...
This past week we visited Cape Cod to carry out our research and mapping of the eleven different sites for our mid-century modern residential project. The eleven sites are located in Eastham and Wellfleet, Massachusetts, so we spread out our visits to the houses over...
After a week and a half of exploration through the narrow passages among the winding streets of Boston much can be said about the character of the city. I once read that what makes a historic, or ancient city so beautiful is the potential to get lost....
As operations came to an end on the Pillar Dollar, it has only lead to more questions than answers. For instance, previously I mentioned that the ship was constructed of hickory (known due to the dendrochronology and speciation analysis from a keel core sample) and...
It was Memorial Day weekend and my first activity at the park was a rafting trip down the Colorado River the morning after I arrived to Las Vegas. I was extremely excited and full of energy to have such an adventurous start to my internship....
As the days go by I continue falling in love with this park. Every time I go down to the lake I cannot emphasize how beautiful Lake Mead looks. The various shades of brown to red boulder mountains allow the lake’s rich turquoise blue color...
Introduciré una simple historia general de Puerto Rico, antes de tocar el tema de la conservación de artefactos históricos. Todo comenzó hace 17 millones de años, donde se originó una piedra gigantesca volcánica, aunque en el trascurso del tiempo va obteniendo diversas características geológicas...