Week 3 – Hotfixes & Hypena
by John Pirrung Hello Readers, Quick update, this week has included more work on the website, as well as an interesting bit of field work. All of the excel tables that I’ve been ...
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Week 2
I began the week with Janice going on two different farm visits. We visited a vegetable farm in their second year of production that wanted advice on fertilizer application, soil pH, and slug management. ...
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Week 3: Terns and Seining
Meet the Terns Common Terns are relatively small water birds divided into two populations: inland and coastal. Both have seen population fluctuations in the past hundred years from human activity like hunting and DDT. ...
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Week 4
Working in the Lab On Monday, our team attended a tick presentation for the NYS Ag & Markets led by Joellen. It was a great opportunity to learn more about the various species of ...
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Week Three: Celebrating Community Connections and Making Progress
Monday, June 10th The celebration for EFNEP’s 55th anniversary continued at the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens. During the event, something that Yexenia Gomez – EFNEP coordinator for Brooklyn and Queens – said ...
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Week 2 – Programming & Publications
by John Pirrung Hello Readers, This week has involved me narrowing down some more specific elements of the project, especially in regards to the website we’re trying to build. I managed to have ...
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Week 1
Hello! My name is Lily Blyn and I am a rising senior at Cornell studying environmental engineering. This summer I am working on collecting tile drainage water samples, conducting field work for agricultural research, ...
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Week 2: Back at Shack
About the Cornell Biological Field Station at Shackelton Point Shackelton Point is a small peninsula in Madison County on the south shore of Oneida Lake. Before it became the Cornell Biological Field Station (CBFS), it ...
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Week 3
Mystery Ticks! This week there was some rain, which limited the days we were able to sample. We try not to drag when the ground vegetation is dewy or wet, since it can dampen ...
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Week Two: Celebrating 55 Years of EFNEP and Discovering Unexpected Connections
On Tuesday, June 4th, 2024, I had the incredible opportunity to attend the 55th anniversary of EFNEP – the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program of Cornell University Cooperative Extension – NYC. The event ...
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Week 1: Great Lakes Expedition
Ahoy! My name is James Hoehner, and this summer I will take you through the research happening at the Cornell Biological Field Station on Oneida Lake and beyond. This week I got a chance ...
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Week 1 – Introductions & iMapInvasives
by John Pirrung Hello Readers, I’m back working with the Climate Change and Weed Management internship for a second year, continuing the work I did last year by creating more articles and tables ...
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