The 2014 field season is gearing up and the IAE Conservation
Research crew will be back on the road to conduct annual monitoring and
research on plant species and ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest.
Projects scheduled for this year include monitoring and researching management
techniques for the Cook’s desert parsley, surveying for Cusick’s lupine in
eastern Oregon, out-planting native species at Horse Rock Ridge, creating propagation
protocols for bartonberry, and monitoring populations of Kincaid’s lupine
throughout its range. Keep an eye out for new blog posts about these
projects (and many more!) from this year’s NPSO interns, Emma MacDonald and Amy
Comstock.
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| Emma MacDonald |
Emma received her B.S.
in Environmental Science and Management as well as a minor in Biology from
Portland State University in June of 2013. During the summer of 2013, she
worked as a back-country ranger with the Olympic National Park on the
Washington Peninsula. Through the fall and winter for 2013-14, she lived in
Seattle, and volunteered with the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center as a clinic
assistant and animal caretaker. Emma’s academic interests include wildlife
conservation and zoology as well as habitat restoration and management. Emma is
working with the IAE to gain professional experience in conservation research
and would like to gain a wide variety of hands-on experiences working in the
field and lab before pursuing a higher degree.
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| Amy Comstock |
Amy received her
Bachelors of Zoology from Oregon State University in 2009. Since then she has
done a variety of field jobs including Hawksbill sea turtle conservation in
Hawaii, songbird surveys in the Coast Range and the Sierras, and habitat
restoration on Fern Ridge Reservoir. She is currently working on setting up a
graduate project at Oregon State in order to obtain her Master’s Degree in
Fisheries and Wildlife. She is originally from Indiana, but her love of the
outdoors has compelled her to stay in the beautiful Pacific
Northwest.
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