16 September 2020
ATMOS: Translating a Wildfire Emergency
The firestorms that struck California in 2017 changed everything for Gabriela Orantes. In the early morning hours of October 9, 2017, her phone pinged. The junior college had sent an emergency alert. Alarmed that classes…
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13 September 2020
LAS CRUCES SUN NEWS: Conservation can help solve multiple crises
Our country is facing multiple crises. Yet too often, we fail to take on our challenges holistically, and so they continue down separate tracks. Fortunately, two crises impacting New Mexico are converging, with local communities…
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31 August 2020
Summer Assessment
A little over a week ago I picked up a park service car from the Charlestown Navy Yard for a day of driving around Boston and retrieving the backpacks of filmmaking tools we had lent…
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29 August 2020
My Farewell as a DFP Fellow
As my Fellowship is coming to a close I would like to say how grateful I am for having had an opportunity like this amidst a pandemic.
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28 August 2020
A Different Kind of Internship: Lessons and Final Thoughts
The entire year of 2020 has been a whirlwind filled with an unprecedented pandemic, economic uncertainty, protests in the name of racial disparity, and natural disasters.
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28 August 2020
Final Week as a DFP
After 11 weeks of hard work, I am logging off with a 50 page species report, a final presentation, many new connections within the service, and a wonderful experience. I started this internship with no…
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