Internships in Applied Suburban Ecology
Managing the remaining, fragmented natural areas in human modified
landscapes is its own ball game. Suburban ecosystems have been called
emergent (or new) wild areas with a unique combination of native and introduced
species, changing biochemical cycles, and an overabundance of people.

The MRGP undergraduate internships give students interested in suburban
ecology the chance to help solve problems facing these protected areas. As an
intern, you will learn how managers cope through research, management,
stewardship, and extension work.  The program runs for 6 weeks each summer.
Our Intern Managers and their projects:

2009
Alex Berger- Survey of Bedford's street trees using GPS and GIS technology,
Rochester University

Adam Hanbury-Brown- Inventory of deer exclosures, Pitzer College

Diana Vassallo- Hair identification systems for North American mammals found in
Westchester County, SUNY Cobbleskill


2008
Whitney Scale - Suburban deer management, Texas A&M

Claire Garmin - Upper Mianus Initiative: Working with residents to identify threats
to water quality, Kenyon College

Addie Harris - Experimenting with the use of radio-frequency identification (RFID)
technology to monitor white-tailed deer, Maine University


2007
Peter Snell - Backyard Coyote Project, Florida Tech

Alec Kretchun - Insect community of the hemlock canopy, Univ. of Oregon

Ryan Thomas - Mapping Exotic Flora of the MRGP Univ. of Texas, Austin
projects like trail maintenance and
patrol, concentrate on their own
independent project. Often this will
include working with our graduate or
high school students.