

Me, Myself, & I
This semester has contributed to my personal and professional growth in various ways. I have learned to enjoy living in a living and...
Up, Up, & Away!
Towards the end of week 14 we attended an international conservation round table with four conservation professionals. I have never...


Protect the Skidgets!
Week 13 was quite a short one. I went to my practicum on Monday and on Tuesday I played with Legos for two hours. You may be wondering,...


How to Design a Rain Garden
This week at my practicum, located at the Last Resort Farm, we constructed a new rain garden. My mentor always has a project for us to...


Old McDonald Travels to the City
My practicum is located at the Last Resort Farm located in Linden, Virginia. It’s a small organic farm where my mentor implements...


Come One, Come All to See This Magnificent Specimen!
Coming into this week I had never thought about how researchers obtain specimen to conduct research on. I don’t know why this had never...


Demonstration of Knowledge
Week 9 at SCMC was unlike any other week I had experienced so far. Part of its focus was on Virginia Working Landscapes and their...
Good Luck, Poachers!
Good Luck, Poachers! This week our focus was on wood turtles and Professor McNeil took us to a couple of streams were the turtles are...
G-I-YES
G-I-YES! How excited I was to hear that we would finally have the chance to learn about geographic information systems! My college,...


Yours, Mine, & Ours
“Ahhh, not invasives!” This is a common phrase I hear from the students and faculty around me at SCBI. Before coming to school here, I...


















