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Out West Student Blog
Welcome to the Bill Lane Center's "Out West" student blog. Here you'll find posts from student interns and researchers. Our students work hard on projects and at organizations across the West, and here they share their reflections on these unique experiences.
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Judith Gomez reflects on her summer spent out on the Kansan prairie, researching grasshoppers and gaining insight into the field of ecology.
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Inside Heyday, the Berkeley publishing house where Kaylee Chan is spending her summer, the editorial intern encounters manuscripts in their rawest form. She describes the satisfaction of working towards the common goal of telling important stories.
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In a time of growing climate anxiety, a summer internship at the Henry's Fork Foundation has reshaped Audrey Hunter's perspective on what is possible. She writes about newfound hope in the ability of hardworking people to improve the community and…
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During her fellowship at the Department of Water Resources, Shirley analyzed how solar and wind resources could be integrated with the State Water Project’s pumping and generation operations, and what it will take to achieve California’s 24/7 clean…
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During her internship at the California Energy Commission, Kelsey Freeman helped launch a policy-making process to ensure that California Native American tribes can participate in and benefit from the clean energy transition.