Join Carlee Dunn and Ana Olsen in the muddy marshes of the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.
Welcome to a day in the life of a Hollings scholar, featuring Carlee Dunn and Ana Olsen! This summer, we were interns at the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR). Our projects complemented the graduate research of Julie Gonzalez, a doctoral student and Margaret A. Davidson Fellow, who is studying how coastal estuarine ecosystems will respond to climate change. Each of our projects tackled a different part of this question: Carlee’s research focused on how the insect community would change by season and marsh habitat in response to rising sea levels. Ana investigated whether or not invasive green crabs ate the native cordgrass, Spartina foliosa.
![Ana and Carlee with their arms around each other. They are outside wearing wet suits and muddy shirts. (Image credit: Julie Gonzalez, NOAA Davidson fellow) Ana and Carlee with their arms around each other. They are outside wearing wet suits and muddy shirts.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/2022-08/ana_and_carlee.jpg?h=f3567e2b&itok=CfZiq6BB)
Ana (left) and Carlee (right) in wetsuits after a long morning of field work! (Image credit: Julie Gonzalez, NOAA Davidson fellow)