Ag/NatR Internship:  Natural Resources Management, Water Resources

 

Name:

Major:

Summer:

Tyler Janke

Natural Resource Management, Water Resources

2003

 

 

Place of Employment:

Address:

City:

State/Province:

ZIP/Postal Code:

Company/Org. URL:

 

Nature Northwest

2900 University Avenue

Crookston

MN

56716

http://www.nature-northwest.org

 

Supervisor/Position:

Phone Number:

Dr. John Loegering

(218) 281- 8141

 

 

Job Title:

 

Project Assistant / GIS Specialist

 

Job Responsibilities:

Site Evaluations, photography, map making using GIS and GPS, web design and public communication.

 

 

Summarize Your
Experience:



 

 My duties included documenting nature related recreation sites throughout northwest Minnesota for use in a published tourism guide book.  My site visits would typically include documenting ecological character and photographing the natural features and infrastructure each of the 500+ sites offer visitors.  I would then enter these sites into our searchable web-based database and create maps of the areas using Arcview® mapping software. 

 

 

What I liked most about
the job:

 

My favorite part of this job was traveling to sites and searching for unique features to photograph.  I also learned a map making using GIS systems.

 

 

Challenges on the job:

 

 

The most challenging part of my job was learning to use much of the technology required by my position.  Although the technology requirements were difficult at first, I feel the experience I gained with these systems is priceless.

 

 

This is a photo I took while documenting the MSUM regional Science Center near Glyndon. 

Here a member of the fritillary family is feeding on the pollen of a purple coneflower 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                      This is one of the many maps I created using Arcview® software highlighting                              nature recreation lands in northwestern Minnesota.