Rockies and High Plains Vector-borne Diseases Center Summer Internship

 Hey all! Not much to report here thus far honestly. It has still mostly just been trapping and IDing, y'know the standard fare.  Although we have had some interesting turnouts from some of our EX traps, with one set having exclusively Aegypti and a lot of them. We've also had a lot of good rain here the past few days which has been nice, albeit a little inconvenient when trying to work with the traps. I expect to have more exciting things to report in the future once we start setting out new traps and spraying for the Buffalo Turbine. Until then, take care and good luck!

 Heya, sorry this is a bit late I blanked on making a post last week so I'm doing it now. Most of what we did in the last week was trapping and IDing.  For the trapping it mainly consisted of setting out and collecting both light and gravid traps. I did not set out traps this week that was handled by Ella and Jessie. However, I did collect traps alongside Autumn.  There was also a lot of IDing to be done this week, which I am slowly but surely improving at. Primarily I handled gravid traps and found primarily mosquitos of the Aedes Vexans and Aedes Dorsalis species. My favorite to look at though is probably the Aedes Aegypti I love their patterning. No pictures this week but hopefully I'll have some for my next post.  Not much else to report thus far it'll probably mostly be more trapping and IDing in the future, but it's pretty fun as long as you have other people to work with. Everyone has been great thus far and I very much so look forward to continuing our work....

 Hello! I'm Morgan I'm an intern working with the RaHP VEC program in the city of Albuquerque. I recently graduated from Early College Academy highschool as well as from the Career Enrichment Center Practical Nursing program. I was inspired to join this program as I have had a lifelong fascination with diseases and how they spread. I want to pursue a career in Epidemiology research as well so it seemed like a good opportunity. I intend to attend the University of New Mexico this coming semester for a bachelor's in Chemical Biology with a minor in Forensic Science. Maybe I'll actually work part time in the ED during college, but we'll see.  Aside from professional and academic pursuits I also love videogames and tabletop RPGs. Some favorites of mine are The Witcher 3, Nier Automata, and of course D&D. I also write sometimes, I'm hoping to be able to do more of that over the summer now that I'm out of school for a while.  I also work alongside two other in...