This is my last blog for EFTA. Due to new circumstances and opportunities, I have decided to leave my internship early. I have had a great time working with the US Forest Service and EFTA (check all my old blog posts if you want), but...
In the featured image above I am using a hose to wash out the roots of Sphaeralcea coccinea, commonly known as scarlet globemallow. My coworker, Myesa and I were helping Jackie Ott (our boss) and her postdoc, Seton Bachle, with a project that required us...
Yesterday March 15, my supervisor, Dr. Jacqueline Ott, and my co-Technician Myesa Legendre-Fixx hauled supplies out to field sites to eventually build rain-out shelters for a drought experiment. I took the picture above before we unloaded our trailer. This past month I have learned a...
My first week at work for the Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) in Rapid City, SD for Dr. Jacqueline Ott, a US Forest Service Research Ecologist, was full of new experiences. I got set up with a work station - two monitors and all! I...
Background Hello everyone!! My name is Philip Fan Yang. The featured photo above of bison was taken on the Wildlife Loop at Custer State Park during my first weekend in Rapid City. I was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and moved to the US when I was four....