Week 9
Field Trips and Focus Groups During this past week, due to weather constraints, we continued to recruit various properties for the study until Wednesday. Using maps designed to highlight locations that matched our sampling ...
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Tick Surveillance and Community Engagement: Evaluating New Techniques to Control Tick-borne Disease Spread in Onondaga County
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 6: YNOE Kits
This week I spent time collecting data for my spreadsheet along with entering and organizing all of the data that I have collected. One interesting kit that I worked on creating a profile for ...
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Week 5: kit profiles
This week I had a lot of catching up to do on my kit profiles as I was very busy at Career ex. I have been working on filling out kit surveys for some ...
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Week 4: Career ex
I had a very exciting week this week. I was able to go to Ithaca to help out at Career ex. This was a three day program teaching about Animal tracking. The program was ...
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Week Seven: Community Engagement at Elmhurst Hospital Greenmarket
This week, I had the exciting opportunity to visit the Elmhurst Hospital Farmers Market in Queens, NYC. My time there was divided between assisting with cooking demonstrations and conducting interviews about Integrated Pest Management ...
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Week 7: The Madison County Fair
This week I got the opportunity to captain a table on behalf of CBFS at the Madison County Fair in Brookfield. It was great to hear what attendees thought about Oneida Lake and to ...
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Week 6
The North American Manure Expo is next week so I have been sending emails to all the volunteers making sure they are clear on when and where they are expected throughout the set up ...
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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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Weeks 7 + 8
Community Engagement Welcome back! The week of the 4th was business as usual with some sampling in the field and time off for the holiday. The next week, we went over to Pratt’s Falls ...
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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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