Ever since I discovered my love for birds in sophomore year of high school, it has been my dream to work with birds of prey.Living in Miami, it was kind of hard to find any opportunities to work with these special birds. I tried ornithology...
Glen Canyon is characterized by its sandstone. Each layer broken up into different parts, kind of like the layers on a cake! In this As the wind and water flows around and through the rocks, they slowly erode, showing traces of the past. Some of the...
On my first day at Glen Canyon, my supervisor was sick (amazing start!!). So, I ended up shadowing another supervisor doing educational programs at the local elementary school. Coming from Miami, it was a culture shock to see that there was only one school in Page,...
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area was founded to preserve the opportunity to recreate and protect cultural history and the environment. For thousands of years, the canyon was inhabited by various indigenous peoples that used the large canyon walls as shade and the waters of the...
https://youtu.be/CM3gndniEz0 Hello, I am Robert Weber. I am a fish and feathers intern with EFA Environment for the Americas and the National Park Service. I'm going to be an interpretive ranger at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area this summer. I'm excited to I'm from Miami. I'm...
Hello there!My name is Robert Weber, and I’m a graduating senior at Florida International University, where I’ve been pursuing a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Natural & Applied Sciences. Over the past few years, I’ve dedicated myself to learning about South Florida’s unique...
When I first started this internship, I was very nervous. I had never done an internship or built whole education programs and activities before. On top of that, since I spent my first week in Colorado training, I came one week later than the other...
Florida Bay is a large ecosystem that can be found in the Everglades. It is mostly comprised of shallow basins that are 1-2 meters deep. It also contains mangrove islands that are scattered about. It's in these mangrove islands that fish typically start their life...
What Are Cypress Domes?Cypress domes are fascinating wetland habitats characterized by their distinctive dome-shaped canopy. They are formed by the varying heights of bald cypress trees, which grow taller in the center where the water is deepest, and shorter around the edges where the water...
In one word, I spent my first week in the park, enamored.It's not every day that you get reminded on the drive into work why you love working there. The way the morning sun hits the sawgrass just right, how the birds fly into the horizon,...