Eyes on Earth Episode 99 – EROS 50th: Interns Who Stayed
EROS has always welcomed interns to work and learn at the center—and many of them have stayed on over the years, some for decades!
EROS has a long history of reaching out to universities to welcome interns who can both contribute to the center and gain valuable skills and experience. A good number of them went on to spend their careers at EROS, some for more than three decades. In this episode, interns who stayed emphasize above all the mission—observing Earth remotely, recording the changes and applying those to science—as their motivation for remaining at EROS. However, all of them also mention another key word that inspired them to stay: camaraderie.
Guests: Jesslyn Brown, Susan Embrock, Kristi Sayler, Roger Auch
Host: Sheri Levisay (contractor for USGS EROS)
Producer: Tom Adamson (contractor for USGS EROS)
Release date: Monday, July 31, 2023
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EROS has always welcomed interns to work and learn at the center—and many of them have stayed on over the years, some for decades!
EROS has a long history of reaching out to universities to welcome interns who can both contribute to the center and gain valuable skills and experience. A good number of them went on to spend their careers at EROS, some for more than three decades. In this episode, interns who stayed emphasize above all the mission—observing Earth remotely, recording the changes and applying those to science—as their motivation for remaining at EROS. However, all of them also mention another key word that inspired them to stay: camaraderie.
Guests: Jesslyn Brown, Susan Embrock, Kristi Sayler, Roger Auch
Host: Sheri Levisay (contractor for USGS EROS)
Producer: Tom Adamson (contractor for USGS EROS)
Release date: Monday, July 31, 2023
Download and Transcript Access
Related Episodes
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Eyes on Earth Episode 94 – EROS 50th: Collaborations with SDSU
South Dakota State University opened its Remote Sensing Institute even before the launch of Landsat 1 and the selection of South Dakota as the location for EROS. In this episode of Eyes on Earth, we talk about some of the collaborations that SDSU and EROS have both benefited from, including research projects centered on Landsat and other data sources, instrument calibration and validation, and...
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Eyes on Earth Episode 69 - Thirty Years of Land Change in the U.S.
Land change is a constant. Even land areas that see little major change can see disruptions from storms, heat waves, wildfires, or invasive species. But major changes aren't uncommon, either. Each year in the U.S., farm fields become tracts of suburban homes, wetlands become more permanent bodies of water, and shrublands burn to be replaced with grasslands. A team of researchers with the USGS Land...
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