Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Primack Alums at the Smith Fellowship Spring Retreat

Posted by Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie

Last week I traveled to Oregon’s Mt Hood for my first Smith Fellowship Retreat. Smith Post-Doctoral Fellows come together for three weeks each year from across the country to meet each other and participate in professional development workshops.

Abe Miller-Rushing, from Acadia National Park, and Jacquelyn Gill from University of Maine, who will be my mentors for the next two years, joined me in Oregon. We talked about the logistics of getting equipment into remote subalpine lakes, opportunities for public outreach, and scheduling for the summer.


Abe and Caitlin at Mirror Lake below Mt Hood. 

The retreat was a wonderful opportunity to connect with other fellows and their mentors in other disciplines of conservation, and to recharge by the fire at Timberline Lodge. We also snow-shoed to Mirror Lake, ate delicious cookies, and drank Oregon beers. The schedule was both energizing and relaxing. I’m looking forward to my Smith Fellowship working with Abe and Jacquelyn to study paleo-vegetation dynamics above treeline in Maine!

1 comment:

  1. Caitlin, I'm looking forward to hearing more about your research and some outreach we could collaborate on (through iSWOOP, which Abe and Jacquelyn both feature in). I work and live in the Boston area and will be at Acadia in May. I'd like to connect. You?
    Martha

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