Increasing HRWC’s capacity and programmatic success

What an amazingly productive summer! HRWC’s summer interns joined us from a broader set of schools than most summers including Bowdoin, Carleton, and Kalamazoo colleges; DePaul, Eastern Michigan, Grand Valley State, Michigan State, and Wayne State universities; University of Michigan; Washtenaw Community College; and Community (Ann Arbor), Dexter, and Greenhills high schools.

These fabulous students contributed to all aspects of our summer programming and data collection. This included our STEM education events—streamside water quality monitoring as well as educational enrichment activities with YMCA and Parkridge Community Center summer camps. Students also monitored and maintained green infrastructure with the Washtenaw County Water Resources Commissioner’s Office, the Village of Pinckney and the City of Wixom. They supported our twenty-year-old Chemistry and Flow Monitoring Program more than in previous years. And they played a pivotal role in accomplishing the mussel survey, which nearly doubled HRWC’s field work this year. All of us at HRWC are grateful for these dedicated young professionals and we are excited to see where their future education and careers take them!

— Jason Frenzel

2024 Summer Interns:

Alex Davis
Alex Hacker
Alex Gonzalez
Anya Knoepp
Ayden Moss
Carrie Butske
Dara Geva
Elena DiMagno
Eli Blackburn
Emma Johnston
Geneva Hannibal
Gianna Minni
Hannah Kangas
Jordan Keeter
Katelyn Klos
Kendyl Barfield
Madie Gordon
Marlayna MacKay
Marnie Guaman
Paulina Acosta Perez
Rachel Waranauckas
Sophie Kreiman
Venita Lindlbauer
Wanda Bush
Will Tschetter

This blog post is also published in the Huron River Report, Fall 2024.