Internships2022

The internship goal is to assist with fisheries management in a flow-regulated river on the Blue Valley Ranch, which owns a large segment of the Blue River. The intern will participate in fishery fieldwork involving electrofishing, food web sampling, and angling, and laboratory work, including processing fish diets (aquatic insect identification), preparation of stable isotope […]

Beaver-constructed dams create ponds of water where fine sediments and nutrients are stored. In areas burned by wildfire, beaver ponds likely play an outsized role in storing sediment and burned organic material that is eroded during post-fire rainstorms, limiting the degrading downstream effects of fire on water quality. This project will assess sediment deposition in

The goal of this internship is to focus on collecting and interpreting accurate data from 4-H youth, families, and volunteers by evaluating the content and structure in surveys, and then the process or software program used to interpret the data for stakeholders. 4-H Extension Agents, Emily Tobler & Charity Cagle, have been working to identify

The Colorado Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (CFVGA) is looking for assistance in complying with recent legislation, the Colorado Agricultural Workers’ Rights Act (SB21-087), which impose new rules and limitations on the conduct of hand weeding activities among agricultural workers. One new responsibility that the Act places on growers is to change their work processes

Goals: This internship will: 1. Train an intern to develop, implement and monitor a grazing plan for summer and fall managed grazing on ~12,500 acres of the Roberts Ranch in Livermore CO. 2. Provide side by side hands on experiences including: a. Develop Range monitoring including plant/animal species identification skills b. Develop low stress stockmanship

Arapahoe County Extension offers robust programs in 4-H youth development, family and consumer sciences, horticulture, community development, and outreach. The Arapahoe County 4-H program currently involves more than 3,500 youth participating in club, community, and outreach activities. The internship will focus on the development and delivery of youth educational programming focusing on outdoor, environmental, and

We are requesting 2 interns. One would be a graduate student pursuing computer based modeling of livestock infectious disease, and the other would be a veterinary student interested in livestock health and infectious disease problems. These 2 interns would work together so they not only learn from the project experiences, but share knowledge as a

Arapahoe County Extension offers robust programs in 4-H youth development, family and consumer sciences, horticulture, community development, and outreach. The Arapahoe County 4-H program currently involves more than 3,500 youth participating in club, community, and outreach activities. This internship will focus on the development and evaluation of 4-H educational programming for military youth at Buckley

a. Goals • A historical review of the contributions made by German speaking immigrants to Colorado agriculture • Creation of a fact sheet with the results of the review • The intern will cover contributions made by both German and Austrian immigrants in Colorado b. Scope The interns will work with extension staff to increase

a. Goals • A historical review of the contributions made by Spanish speaking immigrants to Colorado agriculture • Creation of a fact sheet with the results of the review • Translation of the fact sheet into Spanish • Present a poster at the extension forum summarizing the work completed during the internship b. Scope •