**Correction**

A correction: I will NOT be spending the summer in Louisiana. I will be spending part of the summer and the next (a full year) in Costa Rica!! I got an internship offer from the School for Field Studies (the same organization I studied abroad with). I'll be doing a combination of research, TAing and logistics.

Not less than three days after hearing back from SFS, I fell off a horse and broke a vertebra. I'm fine, but have to be in a brace for 8 weeks. So I called SFS and had to push back my start date by a month. I'll now be starting in early July to give me time to get all the certifications I need. Luckily, it'll also let me get everything ready and perfect my stick driving skills!

Next Adventure: Mississippi River

I've decided I'm going to keep up with this blogging thing, since I'll probably be spending the next year or so in the field(s). I spent last summer at the Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology in northwestern PA doing research on aquatic ecology.

I decided that post-graduation I wanted to take a year to work before going to grad school. I originally planned to save some money, but then I realized I want to make sure that I'm doing what I want to be doing. I was a little worried that I just wanted to go into ecology because that's what I've done for the past two and a half years.

Today I accepted a summer job working with Fish & Wildlife at some refuges on the Mississippi River. Specifically, I'll be living near St Catherine Creek, which is outside of Natchez, MS. I'll be doing bird surveys, bat monitoring, wood duck assessments and banding, and invasives control. I'm hoping I'll get a feel for resource management, and for Fish & Wildlife.