10 July 2020
Pollinators
If you’re into conservation and haven’t heard of pollinators by now, you might be living on a planet without flowers. In the past years, buzz about pollinators has skyrocketed with initiatives to “save the bees”…
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09 July 2020
What is Going on at Midway?
Where in the world is Midway? The Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (MANWR) and Battle of Midway National Memorial are located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, one…
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09 July 2020
Thinking ahead: The magic of EPM
I got lucky, if you can really call anyone lucky in the midst of a global pandemic. Unlike some others in my cohort, my assigned project for the Directorate Fellows Program was both close to…
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08 July 2020
Navigating New Waters
I am now embarking on week eight of my eleven-week fellowship. My supervisor warned me in the beginning that the time would cruise by and that I need to anchor myself in the goals and objectives outlined for this position.…
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08 July 2020
Indoors, but Feeling Like I’m Outdoors
Imagine the feeling of being present in a particular scene when reading a good book—the experience of sinking into the world that is being described in the book without actually being there yourself. You can…
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04 July 2020
Imperfect Conservation: Intersection of Research and Application
During my undergraduate career, I spent three weeks in Mo’orea, a small French Polynesian island. I was joined by 14 other students for a field quarter where we each conducted an ecological study.
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