{"id":1953,"date":"2010-06-16T19:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T02:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2010-06-16T19:56:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T02:56:39","slug":"there-and-back-again-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"There and Back Again, Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Packing up my\u00a0life in Minnesota\u00a0into my car, a week and a\u00a0half\u00a0post-college graduation, and moving to Fort Collins, Colorado to intern with the National\u00a0Park Service\u00a0has been quite the whirlwind experience to say the least. I am beginning my second week at my internship, and it\u00a0would be all too typical to report the old “I love it so far!” line, so I will refrain from using that particular phrase. I am stationed here, between the Biological Resource\u00a0Management Division and Water Resources,\u00a0with another intern, Brittany, with whom I share many commonalities and have made a special bond (Avatar anyone?). Not only are the people here in\u00a0the office\u00a0extraordinarily bright, kind, passionate, and humorous, but the city is beautiful and\u00a0welcoming.\u00a0 \"Colorado\"Brittany and I have been charged with numerous and exciting responsibilities. My time so far has been spent managing and editing an extensive excel file of invasive animals in the national parks across the country, which will conclude as a national report to Congress.\u00a0Talk about instant gratification; who knew the hours upon hours of collegiate excel work would\u00a0be put to such immediate use! Having collaborated on an aquatic invasive species research project\u00a0with my advisor at Hamline \u00a0(http:\/\/eco.confex.com\/eco\/2010\/techprogram\/P23479.HTM<\/a>),\u00a0\"Spiny\u00a0getting to continue my\u00a0education and expand my knowledge on invasives has been a real treat\u00a0for me as well.<\/p>\n

\"Great<\/p>\n

\u00a0Up next for us is a weekend camping and exploring in Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado, with our eyes peeled for any invasives of course! \"rock(Particularly rock snot , which Brittany is now an expert in!)<\/p>\n

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Then, at the end of the month, we head southwest for\u00a0the weeklong CLM training workshop in the Grand Canyon. \"GrandNeither of us have ever been, so the experience is going to be that much more amazing. We are planning a mini-road trip, with a night camping\"Delicate in Arches National Park in Moab, Utah, as well as a short stop at the famed “Four Corners”.<\/p>\n

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Upon our return from the Grand Canyon, we get to spend a week in July\u00a0doing field work in Rocky Mountain National Park. One of us will be\u00a0collecting alpine vegetation and soil data, and the other will focus on stream and wetland ecological integrity (http:\/\/science.nature.nps.gov\/im\/units\/romn\/<\/a>). Although we\u00a0truly do love the work we are doing in the office, I will speak for myself and say how absolutely ecstatic I am about getting out in the field and collecting raw data. For me, there is nothing better!<\/p>\n

Until next time!<\/p>\n

Chenie Prudhomme<\/address>\n
Fort Collins, CO<\/address>\n
National Park Service<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Packing up my\u00a0life in Minnesota\u00a0into my car, a week and a\u00a0half\u00a0post-college graduation, and moving to Fort Collins, Colorado to intern with the National\u00a0Park Service\u00a0has been quite the whirlwind experience to say the least. I am beginning my second week at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}