Week 9: Field Day and Poster Session
For the final week of the internship, we had a couple nice events to wrap things up, including a field day in Aurora, NY and the poster presentation session. For the field day, the ...
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Improving Agronomic and Environmental Sustainability of Forage Production
Week 8: Greenhouse Gas Sampling
This week, I had a couple days where I was doing greenhouse gas sampling in the field for the Net Zero Project. The project measures greenhouse gases — including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous ...
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Week 7: Crop Check-Up and the Manure Expo
This week, I traveled back to Western New York to meet with my mentor and go through some regular Cooperative Extension tasks. We recently had two major thunderstorms that caused a great deal of ...
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Week 3: Wild Weather and Bottomless Fertilizer
On Monday, we had field sampling for the Value of Manure project. We didn’t have to travel too far away, and this time there were five of us. However, that day was the peak ...
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Week 2: Western NY and Science Communication
This week, I joined a few members of the team for an overnight field work trip in Western New York. This field work was part of the Compaction Project, in which we used a ...
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Week 1: Training and Field Sampling
To start off the Cornell Cooperative Extension internship, I participated in an introduction and training session for all the interns on Monday. It was really nice to meet everyone and learn about where they ...
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Week 6: Field Trips and Field Work
The past week was very eventful, consisting of multiple major farm and food processing site visits, as well as exposure to a new and very interesting type of field work for me. I started ...
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Week 5: New Lab Procedure & Final Field Day
This week, I had the opportunity to learn a new lab procedure, which was taught to me by Carlos, a masters student in the Ketterings lab. The procedure was part of Carlos’ project, looking ...
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