31 July 2021
Wrapping up an amazingly educational summer!
As I imagine is the case for most of us DFP interns, it is so hard for me to believe that the summer and the program is nearly over. The past several weeks have been…
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31 July 2021
Trials and Tribulations of Field Work
A proposed project that requires fieldwork demands a lot of meticulous and thought-through plans for how the data will be collected and how it will answer the proposed questions. When my coworker and I were…
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31 July 2021
The Importance of Student Participation
This past week, many of the students in the May cohort of the Directorate Fellow Program (DFP) with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) did a round of presentations. These presentations were for projects…
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31 July 2021
Web stories and photography training for USFWS External Affairs
The past few weeks I’ve ramped up working on infographics, social media posts, and web stories about Mexican wolves to be used in the rollout of the proposed rule revision, including loading web stories into…
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31 July 2021
Achieving Recovery for the San Bruno Elfin Butterfly
I am in the last week of my FWS fellowship and I’m sad to see this experience coming to a close. These last few weeks have been my busiest. Since my last post, I’ve had…
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31 July 2021
Using Data Visualization for Conservation Needs
In science, the concept of data visualization has been rising in its importance. Data visualization is simply the visual or graphical representation of data and information,done through maps, graphs, and other forms of charts. Data…
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