Week 5
On this blog I will be talking about what we did and worked on on last week. Hitting a little closer to where they are, we covered the topic of education and education disparities ...
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Week 6
This week, I worked on 2 main things: First, I created a Google form with survey questions, and I emailed it to 30 florists and cut flower growers. I tried to pick florists and ...
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Weeks Eight and Nine: Presentations and Continuing Interviews
Continuing Farmers’ Market Interviews Over the past two weeks, my work has been deeply rooted in community engagement through farmers’ markets across New York City. Every Tuesday, I visit the Elmhurst Hospital Farmers Market ...
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Week 8
It is pretty insane that this summer internship is almost over already! I have spent the week mainly working on my final poster for the intern poster presentations. Frank sent me the tile drainage ...
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Week 9: Shackelton Point Youth Open House
When Madison County 4-H reached out to me in May expressing interest in holding a youth open house at Shackelton Point this summer, I instantly shared this interest and decided to make it happen. ...
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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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Weeks 3 & 4: The Fair and The Office
Hello, everyone! Week 3 and 4’s blog posts are coming a bit late… After a weekend away with friends, I headed to Ithaca on Monday the 15th to conduct a visit at the Oxley ...
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Week 8: ADKs Adventure and Tern Watching
Adirondacks Field Station This week I toured Cornell’s Little Moose Field Station located just outside of Old Forge with some other CBFS interns. The station is named after its nearest lake, Little Moose Lake, ...
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Week 4
On this week, we delved into a rather interesting topic, housing, in particular housing disparities and the part racism has to do with the occurrence, and continued persistence of such an inequality. We started ...
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Week 7
North American Manure Expo week! I spent most on Monday and Tuesday at the expo site helping with various set up tasks. All the equipment was being dropped off and all of the registration ...
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Week 7: kit update
This week I had my mid-summer advisory committee meeting. It went really well and I was able to get a lot of good feedback from everyone on the committee. I am now working on ...
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Week 5 and Catching Up
Hello! My name is Lilly, and I am currently working in Cattaraugus County! I had an interesting start to my internship, as I started my summer in Delaware County. But my mentor and I ...
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