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New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Internship Program Active

By Fort Collins Science Center March 19, 2024

Each year, the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station hires interns through Stewards Individual Placement Program in partnership with the National Park Service. Interns participate in a variety of ecological research and long-term monitoring in Bandelier National Monument and surrounding landscapes in northern New Mexico. 

Back to the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station Homepage

Primary intern responsibilities include fieldwork related to dendrochronology, vegetation change, forest restoration, and other landscape change research. Tasks include the collection, processing, and analysis of data, and the drafting of reports related to research and monitoring projects. Around half the time is spent in the field, with subsequent time spent on data entry, wood processing, quality control, data analysis and report writing in the office at Bandelier National Monument.  

 

 

Field station intern takes a tree core with an increment borer
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Field station intern takes a tree core with an increment borer. Photo by Masha Kazantsev.
Field station member climbs over log with a full backpack while another field station member approaches
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Field station interns assist wildlife interns from Bandelier in hiking out equipment. Photo by Alyssa Connolly (NPS).

 

Past Intern Projects 

Hope Nowak: Effects of long-term forest treatment on understory vegetation dynamics in Northern New Mexico (poster) 

 

intern in field gear poses with a tree stump
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A field intern prepares to sample a fire-scarred stump near the Mogollon Rim in Arizona.
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a cross section of a tree used for dating

New Mexico Tree-Ring Lab

Our tree-ring lab is a key component of an interdisciplinary ecological research program that focuses on the effects of climate variability and human land use on forest ecology, fire ecology, and ecohydrology.
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Land Management Research Program, Fort Collins Science Center
link

New Mexico Tree-Ring Lab

Our tree-ring lab is a key component of an interdisciplinary ecological research program that focuses on the effects of climate variability and human land use on forest ecology, fire ecology, and ecohydrology.
Learn More
link
Nambe grasslands, New Mexico.

The New Mexico Landscapes Field Station

The New Mexico Landscapes Field Station is a place-based, globally connected, ecological research group that studies ecosystem and wildlife dynamics, working with land managers, community leaders, and Tribes to deliver solutions that foster the linked health of human and natural systems. For over three decades, we have focused on shifting research needs from forest watershed health to wildlife...
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center
link

The New Mexico Landscapes Field Station

The New Mexico Landscapes Field Station is a place-based, globally connected, ecological research group that studies ecosystem and wildlife dynamics, working with land managers, community leaders, and Tribes to deliver solutions that foster the linked health of human and natural systems. For over three decades, we have focused on shifting research needs from forest watershed health to wildlife...
Learn More
link
Hibernating little brown bat

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Wildlife Research

Below are ongoing or completed research projects related to wildlife at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center
link

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Wildlife Research

Below are ongoing or completed research projects related to wildlife at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
Learn More
link
Field station member hikes in southern Bandelier National Monument, overlooking Cochiti Reservoir

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Forest Ecosystem Research

Below are ongoing or completed research projects related to forest ecosystems at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center
link

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Forest Ecosystem Research

Below are ongoing or completed research projects related to forest ecosystems at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
Learn More
link
Dead trees laying across the ground in a mountain landscape

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Fire Research

Below are ongoing or completed research projects related to fire at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center
link

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Fire Research

Below are ongoing or completed research projects related to fire at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
Learn More
link
Dr. Craig Allen standing next to a burned tree trunk in the Jemez Mountains in New Mexico.

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: People

Staff, affiliates, and collaborators associated with the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Land Management Research Program, Fort Collins Science Center
link

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: People

Staff, affiliates, and collaborators associated with the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
Learn More

Vegetation change over 140 years in a sagebrush landscape of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico, USA

QuestionsBig sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) ecosystems across the western United States have experienced many changes in ecosystem dynamics and vegetation composition over the last century due to livestock grazing, non-native species, and changing climate and fire regimes. We conducted the first systematic investigation of historical vegetation composition and vegetation change in a sagebrush la
Authors
Kara Fox, Ellis Margolis, Manuel K. Lopez, Ella Kasten, J.T. Stevens
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Research and Development Program, Fort Collins Science Center

Each year, the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station hires interns through Stewards Individual Placement Program in partnership with the National Park Service. Interns participate in a variety of ecological research and long-term monitoring in Bandelier National Monument and surrounding landscapes in northern New Mexico. 

Back to the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station Homepage

Primary intern responsibilities include fieldwork related to dendrochronology, vegetation change, forest restoration, and other landscape change research. Tasks include the collection, processing, and analysis of data, and the drafting of reports related to research and monitoring projects. Around half the time is spent in the field, with subsequent time spent on data entry, wood processing, quality control, data analysis and report writing in the office at Bandelier National Monument.  

 

 

Field station intern takes a tree core with an increment borer
Sources/Usage: Public Domain. View Media Details
Field station intern takes a tree core with an increment borer. Photo by Masha Kazantsev.
Field station member climbs over log with a full backpack while another field station member approaches
Sources/Usage: Public Domain. View Media Details
Field station interns assist wildlife interns from Bandelier in hiking out equipment. Photo by Alyssa Connolly (NPS).

 

Past Intern Projects 

Hope Nowak: Effects of long-term forest treatment on understory vegetation dynamics in Northern New Mexico (poster) 

 

intern in field gear poses with a tree stump
Sources/Usage: Public Domain. View Media Details
A field intern prepares to sample a fire-scarred stump near the Mogollon Rim in Arizona.
link
a cross section of a tree used for dating

New Mexico Tree-Ring Lab

Our tree-ring lab is a key component of an interdisciplinary ecological research program that focuses on the effects of climate variability and human land use on forest ecology, fire ecology, and ecohydrology.
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Land Management Research Program, Fort Collins Science Center
link

New Mexico Tree-Ring Lab

Our tree-ring lab is a key component of an interdisciplinary ecological research program that focuses on the effects of climate variability and human land use on forest ecology, fire ecology, and ecohydrology.
Learn More
link
Nambe grasslands, New Mexico.

The New Mexico Landscapes Field Station

The New Mexico Landscapes Field Station is a place-based, globally connected, ecological research group that studies ecosystem and wildlife dynamics, working with land managers, community leaders, and Tribes to deliver solutions that foster the linked health of human and natural systems. For over three decades, we have focused on shifting research needs from forest watershed health to wildlife...
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center
link

The New Mexico Landscapes Field Station

The New Mexico Landscapes Field Station is a place-based, globally connected, ecological research group that studies ecosystem and wildlife dynamics, working with land managers, community leaders, and Tribes to deliver solutions that foster the linked health of human and natural systems. For over three decades, we have focused on shifting research needs from forest watershed health to wildlife...
Learn More
link
Hibernating little brown bat

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Wildlife Research

Below are ongoing or completed research projects related to wildlife at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center
link

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Wildlife Research

Below are ongoing or completed research projects related to wildlife at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
Learn More
link
Field station member hikes in southern Bandelier National Monument, overlooking Cochiti Reservoir

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Forest Ecosystem Research

Below are ongoing or completed research projects related to forest ecosystems at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center
link

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Forest Ecosystem Research

Below are ongoing or completed research projects related to forest ecosystems at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
Learn More
link
Dead trees laying across the ground in a mountain landscape

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Fire Research

Below are ongoing or completed research projects related to fire at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center
link

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: Fire Research

Below are ongoing or completed research projects related to fire at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
Learn More
link
Dr. Craig Allen standing next to a burned tree trunk in the Jemez Mountains in New Mexico.

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: People

Staff, affiliates, and collaborators associated with the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Land Management Research Program, Fort Collins Science Center
link

New Mexico Landscapes Field Station: People

Staff, affiliates, and collaborators associated with the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station.
Learn More

Vegetation change over 140 years in a sagebrush landscape of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico, USA

QuestionsBig sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) ecosystems across the western United States have experienced many changes in ecosystem dynamics and vegetation composition over the last century due to livestock grazing, non-native species, and changing climate and fire regimes. We conducted the first systematic investigation of historical vegetation composition and vegetation change in a sagebrush la
Authors
Kara Fox, Ellis Margolis, Manuel K. Lopez, Ella Kasten, J.T. Stevens
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Research and Development Program, Fort Collins Science Center