Tag: <span>NOAA</span>

Howdy, Partner: Celebrating the Human Connection of Conservation

  My internship with New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) at the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve (the Reserve, or HRNERR), partnered with Americorps and the Student Conservation Association (SCA), came to a close earlier this year.   It was a treat to further plug into the …

Searching and Researching Down By the Riverside

There is a tendency for estuarine environments–where the river meets the sea–to hold a “nutrient trap” along the stark gradient between the estuary’s upper flow of freshwater and the lower, more dense “salt wedge” of seawater.  This middle portion of the water column tends to be the most ecologically productive–where …

Understanding the Costs of Climate Inaction

One major component of Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy curriculum is an intensive four- to six-month internship designed not only to give students work experience in an area of interest, but also provide time to work on in-depth projects, network, and maybe find that aha moment leading to the …