Cheska Hrupcin, Entomology Research with the Brosi Lab at RMBL, Week 5
Hello all! Wow, I can’t believe that I am done with my internship! This week was filled with our usual fieldwork. We experimented with filming with two new flowers (Geranium maculatum and Hymenoxys) to help train the AI for the next field season. This meant we did not manipulate these plants, they were only used […]
Cheska Hrupcin, Entomology Research with the Brosi Lab at RMBL, Week 4
Hi all! So crazy that I only have one week left of this fantastic internship! This week did have some unfortunate bumps in the road but, it was still so great! My mentor (Chris) could not work with us this week so, I got to work with the QNEST team. We spent most days out […]
Cheska Hrupcin, Entomology Research with the Brosi Lab at RMBL(Crested Butte), Week 3
Hello again! It has been another great week in Crested Butte working with the Brosi lab! This week was jam-packed with long, hot, days working in the field. Three of them were spent working on our usual procedure of setting up cameras, bags, and our tent. The “thunderdome” is used to increase pollination events by […]
Cheska Hrupcin, Entomology Research with the Brosi Lab at RMBL(Crested Butte), Week 2
Hello again! My name is Cheska Hrupcin and this is the second week of my entomology internship! This week, I actually spent the majority of my time working with Pinhead for their PunkScience activities back home in Telluride. So last Sunday I drove back to Telluride and got settled in. Then on Monday, I met […]
Cheska Hrupcin, Entomology Research with the Brosi Lab at RMBL(Crested Butte), Week 1
Hello! My name is Cheska Hrupcin and I am interning with the Brosi Lab (University of Washington) at RMBL (Rocky Moutain Biological Laboratory) in Gothic (Crested Butte), Colorado! This week I worked alongside my mentor, Chris Anderson, (a Harvard grad currently working to get his PhD!), and another grad student to begin data collection. Chris’s […]