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Data Rescue Interns: Cindy Gao and Robin Bradley
In the summer of 2025, we completed a data rescue Internship with the Harvey Janszen Legacy Project and the Institute for Multidisciplinary Ecological Research in the Salish Sea (IMERSS). Harvey Janszen was an amateur naturalist based in the Southern Gulf Islands, Saanich Peninsula, and San Juan Islands. He recorded extensive notes about plant species occurrences in these places for over forty years (1973-2017), providing invaluable insight into plant community changes over time in this unique region. These handwritten notes across five journals have been the subject of two other LDP internships (Part 1, Part 2). Data Rescue Intern: Eniola Oni
In the Spring/Summer of 2025, I completed a data rescue internship for the Acadia Wildlife Museum. This internship was facilitated by CIEE's the Living Data Project. I worked on rescuing thousands of collections records from the 1920s to present day. They included rare species and items that can no longer be collected. I moved these records from an old computer and outdated software, Filemaker pro 12, cleaned them using R programming and moved them into Specify 7, an open-source biological data management platform. Some of these collections were then published on GBIF. It was a beautiful experience for me as I got to see and appreciate the work that goes into keeping records alive. Data Rescue Intern: Katie Gyte In the summer of 2025, I completed a Data Rescue Internship in collaboration with the IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA). The IISD-ELA is located in Northwestern Ontario and is known as the world’s freshwater laboratory, comprising a network of 58 small lakes and their watersheds made available for scientific research. The project that my internship focused on was the FLooded Uplands Dynamics EXperiment (FLUDEX), an ecological experiment conducted from 1997 to 2003 that investigated the effects of reservoir creation on greenhouse gas fluxes and methylmercury production and accumulation in the food web.  Photos from IISD-ELA archives. Credit: IISD-ELA |
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