Spotlight on Summer Students & Mentors

Although the 2020 Summer Research Program has been canceled due to COVID19, we are already looking forward to 2021. And in the meantime, we're hearing great things about past Summer Program students in features by their home or university news.

Recent highlights include:

• Shawna Greyeyes (summer '19) in the Arizona Daily Sun, KNAU Earth Notes, Navajo-Hopi Observer, Harvard Gazette, Atlas Obscura, and the Boston Globe
• Savanna Brown (summer '19) in The Toledo Blade and Bowling Green State University News
• Tania Figueroa Colón (summer '19) on the GeoLatinas blog
• Elise Miller (summer '19) in College of St. Benedict News
• Lony Clausen (summer '19) in a research video series by the Ignace Lab at Smith College
• Turtle McCloskey (summer '19) in Inside Southern Oregon University
• Anna Therien (summer '19) in Westfield State University News
• Audrey Kaiser (summer '19) in the Keene Sentinel
• Brianna Martinez (summer '19) featured by the Record Lab at Bryn Mawr College
• Dayna De La Cruz and Emma Conrad-Rooney (summer '19) featured by the Matthes Lab at Wellesley College
• Tiffany Carey (summer '12) featured by the Ecological Society of America

We've also been impressed by the publications and data products co-authored by recent students based on their summer work:

• R package: End-to-end data provenance, co-authored by Khanh Ngo and Erick Oduniyi (summer '19)
• Multiple papers co-authored by Ian Smith (summer '16): Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, Geophysical Research Letters, and PLOS ONE

Our research mentors have been in the spotlight for their work with summer students, as well!

• Sydne Record in a NEON series about Women in Ecology 
• Audrey Barker Plotkin in an Oak Ridge National Laboratory highlight
• Fiona Jevon (summer student '10; now a mentor) in the MBL News