Hi everyone! I can’t believe that I’m already writing my last blog post of the summer. Time has really flown by during this internship. Last week I (along with my SIP Fellows cohort) had the opportunity to present my SIP project at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Montreal, Canada. It was so fun to meet the other SIP Fellows and be able to hear about all of the amazing research going on at national parks throughout the country. Since then, I briefly returned to Bozeman before moving back to Logan, Utah to finish up my Master’s degree.
I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to work with the National Park Service this summer. I made some amazing connections with other Greater Yellowstone Network employees and was able to see some truly beautiful places. I also learned a lot about working for the federal government and I feel much more prepared for job hunting than I did before.
I am excited to continue working with my NPS colleagues on a few projects after my internship officially ends. One of these ongoing projects is writing an article about the Yellowstone River flood to be published in Park Science, an online journal about research in the national parks. We are also hoping to write a scientific article to be published in a peer-reviewed journal detailing the results of my water quality modeling work this summer. Be sure to keep an eye out for both of these papers in coming months!
Signing off for now,
Ally