-: So for me, I graduated from the
Natural Resources and Environmental Management group
on campus, through that department.
Now there is a Fisheries and Biology group
on campus as well so through those classes
you an kind of get a general background
of what's going on but I would highly encourage
reaching out to professors to kind of
do some undergraduate research work
because there's a lot of cool projects going on
that you might not necessarily know of
and the professors would love to have your help.
When it comes to and intern for
the Bureau of Water Quality or
any sort of field biologist,
we're looking forward to having somebody
that's gonna be eager to be there.
We want them to be able to know that
we are gonna be out in the elements.
It's hot in the summer so we're getting heat,
we're getting rain, we're getting water,
so we really look for like those outdoorsy qualities,
as well as being able to work with somebody
for you know, 40 hours a week.
I would say just knowing that they went the extra mile.
Just knowing that they did some volunteer work.
They did some things might not necessarily required
to graduate but things that showed that they were
interested like joining clubs or
like I said, volunteer activities always look good.
If you're looking for computer software
things to focus on while you are
doing your undergraduate degree,
I would really suggest looking into some,
any sort of computing statistics,
that's becoming very popular.
Coding is becoming more and more important
as the field progresses which I know
sounds a little uninteresting but
a lot of places are going to
a statistics based program, based out of code.
The other thing I would recommend
would be a GIS or graphical information systems courses
to learn how to create maps and things like that
as opposed to just doing it the old fashioned way.