Stretching along the Northern California coast and home to over 1500 species of plants and animals, Point Reyes National Seashore offers plentiful opportunities to connect with the area’s several cultures and diverse habitats. Northern elephant seal waving hello from Drake's Beach (Photo by Diego Morales). One...
Welcome to my very first Mosaics in Science blog post! This summer I will be an interpretation and resource education assistant at Point Reyes National Seashore, and these posts allow any reader to follow along. So thank you for checking in over the course of...
It's the end of week 12, and thus my summer adventure has reached its conclusion. My how time flies! It seems like only yesterday that I was preparing for my road trip to California and now I find myself having just completed my last day...
Perhaps you’ve always wondered what it's like to be a field scientist, maybe you’re considering applying to the Mosaics program, or perhaps you’ve never really given it much thought but now I have you questioning what it would be like… If any of these descriptions sound...
Like I mentioned in my last blog, during the beginning of this month all of the Mosaics in Science interns (including myself) attended a 5 day end-of-internship conference in Colorado! While at the conference we presented our summer projects, learned more about careers within the...
This past weekend the National Park Service and Point Reyes National Seashore Association hosted the 38th annual Big Time Festival at Kule Loklo. This annual event celebrates the First People, the Coast Miwok, who once inhabited what is now known as Marin and Sonoma Counties....
I just wrapped up week 6 of 12 of my internship, officially putting me at the "halfway mark" of my summer with the Mosaics in Science Diversity program. I can hardly believe that it's been six weeks since I moved south to California and started...
This past week, the fisheries crew and I have been surveying Pine Gulch Creek, a small watershed that runs through Bolinas, CA. To get a better picture of how the environment and fish community structures have changed over time, we’ve been practicing a variety of...
Quick! What’s ginormous, seemingly always yelling, reeks of fish, and weighs thousands of pounds? Don’t know the answer? Why, it’s an elephant seal, of course! This past weekend, a couple of fellow National Park Service coworkers and I got together to go tide-pooling along one of the beaches...
In last week's blog I talked about a couple different survey techniques that the Fisheries Crew and I had been using while out in the field. I mentioned that we were (at the time) working on a project referred to as "Giacomini Sampling". This sampling...