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Prototype Plankton-Tow Activity for Barrier Island Botanists
By Sarah Powers, Fall Intern 2024 As part of our Barrier Island Botanist program, our education team recently tested a new hands-on plankton-tow activity, aimed at engaging participants with the tiny but fascinating organisms that thrive in our island’s waters. We explored three different sites around Bald Head Island and collected five...
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Interns After Hours
By Kaitlyn Williams, Summer Intern 2024 Being an intern at the Bald Head Island Conservancy has been a truly once-in-a-lifetime experience. As an intern, one of the first questions I get asked (after a quick update on nesting season of course), is what my summer has looked like so far. You’ve seen us all around […]
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Bald Head Island Through My Lens
By Danielle Petty, Summer Intern 2024 As a Marketing/Development Intern this summer, one of my favorite parts of the job has been content creation—from taking videos at BHIC events to photographing so many fun moments. Photography is one of my favorite things to do outside of work too, and I’ve spent the summer capturing as […]
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Environmental Education: Why It’s Important and What It Means to Me
By Mollie Martin, Summer 2024 Intern There is so much work being done here at Bald Head Island Conservancy – from sea turtle protection to oyster reef restoration to water quality testing and so much more! But I’ve learned in my time here that education is at the heart of all of this work. Environmental […]
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BHI Oaks in a Nutshell
By Larah Gonzalez, Summer 2024 Intern A walk through Bald Head Island’s maritime forest grants each visitor an awe- inspiring view of oak trees, towering above and stretching their branches towards the sky. Oak trees are an integral species within the maritime forest. Their canopies cast a welcome reprieve from the sun and provide habitat...
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Calling All Backyard Biologists! A Sneak Peak Into A New Community Science Intern Project
By Noelle Daley, Summer 2024 Intern As a summer education intern at the Conservancy, my weeks have been filled with leading nature tours, helping out at summer camp, and catching blue crabs in the marsh. In addition to our departmental duties, interns at the Conservancy are also responsible for completing an intern project over the […]
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Meet Our Summer 2024 Interns!
Summer has finally arrived at Bald Head Island, and so have the BHI Conservancy summer interns! Let’s get to know the friendly faces that will be protecting sea turtles, researching wildlife, guiding you on nature tours and so much more this summer: Larah Gonzalez Larah is from Edinburg, Texas. A fun fact about her […]
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From Sanctuary to Overlook: Unraveling the Mystery of Bald Head Island’s Roosting Birds
by Katie Barton, Conservation Intern (Summer 2023) Hello, readers! My name’s Katie Barton, and I’m a former Conservation Intern at the Bald Head Island Conservancy. This December I will be graduating from The University of North Carolina Wilmington, where I’m double-majoring in Biology and Environmental Science, with a concentration in...
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Intern Spotlight: Ava Reed, Business/Retail Intern
Ava Reed, a junior Communications major from The University of Charleston located in Charleston, West Virginia, is a business intern for the retail division of the Bald Head Island Conservancy. As a member of the Turtle Central team, Reed has dedicated much of her time to the launch of The Hatchling Hut, a welcome center […]
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Intern Spotlight: My Journey So Far With the Conservancy
by Ryan Riggs, UNCW intern Hello, my name is Ryan Riggs! I’m a junior at UNCW studying Oceanography and minoring in Geospatial Technologies. I hope to earn my drone pilot’s license during my time as an undergrad as well. I’m from Allentown, Pennsylvania, though since starting UNCW two years ago my family has moved to […]
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