{"id":248,"date":"2021-06-28T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=248"},"modified":"2021-06-28T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T23:24:10","slug":"trading-salmon-fishing-in-alaska-for-a-summer-internship-in-astoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2021\/06\/28\/trading-salmon-fishing-in-alaska-for-a-summer-internship-in-astoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading salmon fishing in Alaska for a summer internship in Astoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everybody, my name is Luke\u00a0Brockman, and I\u2019m humbled and excited to introduce myself as an intern this summer\u00a0in the\u00a0OSU Extension Service. I\u2019ll be working under the supervision of Aaron\u00a0Groth,\u00a0Extension\u00a0regional fire specialist for Clatsop and\u00a0other\u00a0northern\u00a0counties in Oregon\u2019s\u00a0Coast\u00a0Range. I\u2019ll also\u00a0be\u00a0working alongside the rest of the team members\u00a0in\u00a0OSU\u2019s Extension office here in Astoria.<\/span> \"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a little bit about myself: I\u2019m 23, and I\u2019m a senior at OSU. My primary area of study is\u00a0biocultural anthropology, with a\u00a0bachelor\u2019s\u00a0in\u00a0sustainability. I\u2019m\u00a0originally\u00a0from Kodiak, Alaska\u00a0\u2013\u00a0a large island in the Gulf of Alaska, situated due south of the opening of the Cook Inlet. My family moved to the small town of Triangle Lake, Oregon\u00a0(about 50 miles\u00a0southwest of Corvallis)\u00a0when I was still an infant, but\u00a0during the course of my childhood,\u00a0I spent enough time visiting Kodiak to consider it home.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
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It\u2019s late June,\u00a0so normally I would\u00a0typically be on a commercial salmon fishing boat somewhere around Kodiak Island, searching tirelessly for salmon returning to their streams to spawn\u00a0and continue that amazing, cyclical spectacle of biology. This summer will be the first since I\u2019ve graduated high school that I\u2019ll be staying in Oregon instead,\u00a0and I couldn\u2019t be more excited to get to work with Aaron.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When Aaron is in the field doing community outreach, speaking at workshops and at meetings with stakeholders, I\u2019ll be there too\u00a0\u2013\u00a0shadowing\u00a0him, meeting people, and taking\u00a0notes in my journal. Already\u00a0I\u2019ve gained insight into both the career world at large and into the work of OSU Extension, as well as the Oregon community of forest owners and stewards. Although I\u2019m not a student of Forestry and\u00a0natural\u00a0resources, I\u2019m confident that the curriculum in both of my undergraduate fields of study will prove useful in assisting with the projects and concerns of the boards and individuals that Aaron and I will be interacting with this summer.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I think it\u2019d be awesome to have the chance to write a newspaper article having to do with fire awareness and education, and the diversity of landowners and stakeholders in the\u00a0Coast\u00a0Range. I love both writing and doing field research and I\u2019m particularly inspired by ethnography\u00a0and analog photography (one of my main creative outlets).\u00a0Prior to stumbling upon this internship opportunity, I knew very little of OSU Extension. I assumed that the office in Astoria was some sort of liaison for researchers working at OSU to access resources and an office space. Now that I know what OSU Extension really is, and what its goals and objectives are for our diverse Oregonian communities, I\u2019m very honored to be part of an organization whose community-oriented philosophies align so closely with my broader ethical ideals as a person.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello everybody, my name is Luke\u00a0Brockman, and I\u2019m humbled and excited to introduce myself as an intern this summer\u00a0in the\u00a0OSU Extension Service. I\u2019ll be working under the supervision of Aaron\u00a0Groth,\u00a0Extension\u00a0regional fire specialist for Clatsop and\u00a0other\u00a0northern\u00a0counties in Oregon\u2019s\u00a0Coast\u00a0Range. I\u2019ll also\u00a0be\u00a0working alongside the rest of the team members\u00a0in\u00a0OSU\u2019s Extension office here in Astoria. Here\u2019s a little bit… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,17],"tags":[52,58,7],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clatsop-county","category-oregon-coast","tag-clatsop-county","tag-luke-brockman","tag-oregon-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}