Spring 2009
Here's what our Spring 2009 Smithsonian-Mason Semester Students are doing:
Brittany ("BC") Carter will be working as a facilitator and camp counselor at Genesee Valley Outdoor Learning Center.
Kristen in the Gamete Lab
Kristen Donahue will be working with Dr. Buddha Pukazhenthi in the gamete lab developing sperm processing techniques for improving post-thaw sperm recovery.
Virginia Griffith will being interning with Matt Evans and Ed Smith at the National Zoo’s Reptile Discovery Center and Amazonia working will the Panamanian Golden Frogs and helping create an informal education program for the public.
Rachel Hardin will be doing veterinary technician work at VCA Animal Hospital in Annadale and will work with Wynne Collins on Przewalsksi's horse research at the Smithsonian Conservation and Research Center, Summer 09.
Ricky Hutchinson will do the Marine Mammal Training Internship at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. He will also be working at the Smithsonian developing training materials for a project in Gabon.
Jake Knibb will be working at the Smithsonian Genetics Lab and at Environmental Studies on the Piedmont.
Christi Kruse will be doing an internship at the Smithsonian CRC in Ecology with Dr. Bill McShea.
Alyssa Meyer will work as an Intern for the Antarctic Marine Invertebrates collection with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Lauren with Cheetah
Lauren Reiter will be working this summer at Environmental Studies on the Piedmont conducting camera trapping studies and biodiversity monitoring. This fall, Lauren will begin graduate study as an independent study working on a research project focusing on large mammalian predators in conjunction with the Smithsonian National Zoo.
Kendra Smyth will be working in the Endocrine lab with Dr. Elizabeth Freeman. She will be analyzing bull elephant and red panda hormone levels and starting to put together a research plan for her master's degree.
Diane with an American Kestrel
Diane Wyse began her summer volunteering at the Marathon Wild Bird Center in Florida and then went on to work as an Intern for the Antarctic Marine Invertebrates collection with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She is headed next to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) REU Program (research experiences for undergraduates) studying the effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) on nurdles (plastic pellets that are by-products of manufacturing) in the ocean.
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