Hi, I'm TreVaughn Ellis, a 2022 Hollings scholar. This summer I had the opportunity to work with the National Marine Fisheries Service in the Recruitment Energetics and Costal Assessment group at the Auke Bay Laboratory in Juneau, Alaska. My project investigated some of the unknowns about lamprey in their juvenile stage. Through my internship I got to do a wide range of activities, from collecting my own samples in the field to conducting my own experiments. Coming from the East Coast, the world I was immersed in over the summer was new, exciting, and at times, challenging.
TreVaughn Ellis, a 2022 Hollings scholar, out for fieldwork during his internship at Auke Bay Laboratory in Juneau, Alaska. (Image credit: Courtesy of TreVaughn Ellis)