Creating Leadership and Professional Development Through Extension Internships, 2023

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Cohort 2023 Slideshow

on August 09, 2023

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Week One with Extension by Ellie Rogers

Image: ATV Operation- (Learning how to drive an ATV and calibrate the boom and sprayers as practice before an herbicide application the following week as a practice trial to remove preexisting weeds in a plot designated for sunflower plantings.) I have always had a passion for nature and food. As an environmental science major and soil science minor at the University of Maryland, this is evident in what I choose to divert my undergraduate studies towards. Growing up in suburbia, however, has limited my knowledge of food production and the environment largely to what I was able to learn in the classroom and my own passion projects.Working with Dr. Kurt Vollmer at the Wye Research and Extension Center in his research regarding weeds systems and herbicide functionality has begun to broaden my limited scope of knowledge and expand my biased understanding of agriculture. My understanding of the UME program as a whole has largely been confined to the few bulletins and extension articles I

Week One with Extension by Cole Chapman

Hi, My name is Cole Chapman. I am a rising sophomore at the University of Maryland and I’m currently an environmental science and technology (ENST) major. I say currently because I’m not 100% sure it is what I want to do going forward, so I took this internship as an opportunity to expand my field of view in terms of areas of interest. In terms of the actual internship, I’m working with multiple different county offices in central Maryland on a variety of projects. My current primary location is the Frederick county extension office with Mark Townsend as my mentor. We are working with Nathan Glenn of the Howard county office and Kelly Nichols of the Montgomery county office to get me around to different locations and see if one of their projects interests me. Image: Me in Howard county after setting up a moth trap on one of three farms. One consistent project across all 3 offices is crop scouting, going into fields and determining levels of pest pressure and environmental conditions a

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