Environmental Internship Program - 2022 Booklet
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BIODIVERSITY AND<br />
CONSERVATION<br />
PROJECT TITLE<br />
Developing Metrics for<br />
Community-scale<br />
Biodiversity Restoration<br />
and Management<br />
ORGANIZATION(S)<br />
Friends of Princeton Open<br />
Spaces (FOPOS)<br />
LOCATION(S)<br />
Princeton, New Jersey<br />
MENTOR(S)<br />
Anna Corichi, Director,<br />
Natural Resources and<br />
Stewardship, FOPOS;<br />
Andy Dobson, Professor<br />
of Ecology and<br />
Evolutionary Biology,<br />
Princeton University;<br />
Annarie Lyles, Trustee,<br />
FOPOS<br />
Casey Burton ’24<br />
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY<br />
I interned as a land steward for Friends of<br />
Princeton Open Spaces (FOPOS). My co-interns<br />
and I worked to increase pollinator habitats and<br />
remove invasive plant species. We also collected<br />
data that FOPOS needs to apply for the Natural<br />
Climate Solutions Grant, which would be used<br />
to work on restoring a part of the park called<br />
Community Park North. For my own research,<br />
I laid the groundwork for future studies on how<br />
turtle and insect biodiversity are changing at<br />
the Princeton Mountain Lakes Nature Reserve<br />
following significant invasive species removal. I<br />
collected trial data and tested various methods of<br />
data retrieval so that this data could be compared<br />
to past and future studies pertaining to species<br />
abundance and diversity in comparison to the<br />
health of the restoration site. I also planned<br />
multiple public engagement events including an<br />
“iNaturalist BioBlitz Insect” event, a nighttime<br />
moth-sighting event, and I created routes for<br />
future turtle sighting events that will include the<br />
public.<br />
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