18 June 2021
The Lake Mead Quagga Mussel Quandary: Reflections on My Remote Research with Invasive Mussels and Razorback Sucker
Ahoy! I’m Liz Renner and I’m a freshwater fisheries ecologist and Ph.D. candidate at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. My dissertation research in collaboration with the Kansas Dept. of Wildlife & Parks examines the…
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18 June 2021
My Introduction to the DFP program and Conservation Banking
Greetings! My name is Nirav, and this summer, I started my DFP fellowship position with the Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office, located in Legacy Region 8 of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). I…
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18 June 2021
Making the Best Out of a Remote Situation
I am about a month into my Directorate Fellowship Program (DFP) position, and I am still just as excited as I was when I started. I am starting to understand what accomplishments the Foreign Species…
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18 June 2021
First few weeks in External Affairs
My DFP project is with the USFWS External Affairs program in Region 2 (the Southwest Region) to create outreach materials for an upcoming proposed rule change to the management of Mexican Wolves. I’m currently a…
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17 June 2021
Beauty in the Borderlands
Since 1985, the historical Buenos Aires Ranch has operated under the management of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a national wildlife refuge. The ranch was purchased with a mandate to work towards the…
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17 June 2021
New Experiences and an Exciting Future
A lot has happened in the first few weeks of my internship at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Reserve and it feels surreal thinking about how I got to this place in my life. Ever since…
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