Pinhead's 2007 Interns
Caitlin Bush - Chris Anderson - Gisele Nelson - Jake Sullivan - Kyle Rasmussen
Marena Maupin - Grayson Zulauf - Marlee Mitchell - Nikki Gallen - Dawson White
Caitlin Bush - Earth Train Panama
Mentor: Nathan Gray
http://www.earthtrain.org
Internship on the Centro Madrono Campus in the Highlands of Panama near Chepo.Caitlin is a senior at Telluride High School.
A bullet ant! They apparently feel equivalent to a bullet....
Letters from the Field
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 7
Week 8
Left to Right: Chris Anderson, Caitlin Bush, Jake Sullivan, and Grayson Zulauf
Leandro (who works with Earthtrain), James (who is working on legal issues and is in law school), Jose ( who is one of the Embera students here) and Caitlin
Chris Anderson - Earth Train Panama 
Mentor: Nathan Gray
http://www.earthtrain.org
Internship on the Centro Madrono Campus in the Highlands of Panama near Chepo.
Chris Anderson attended Norwood High School and graduated this year. He deferred admission to Harvard to do this internship.
Letters from the Field
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Chris Anderson with his new friend at Centro Madrono a 6 foot long bird snake.
Gisele Nelson - Hawaii Wildlife Fund
Gisele is interning on the Big Island of Hawaii and will be studying and tracking sea turtles as well as recording occurrences of endangered Hawaiian plant species. Her mentor, Bill Gilmartin, was responsible for saving the Hawaiian Monk Seal from extinction.
Gisele will be attending University of Vermont this Fall. She will be living in the “Green” dorm and will continue learning more about conservation through her studies there. Gisele is a Graduate of Telluride High School in 2007.
Letters from the Field
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4 - Final Report
Jake Sullivan - Earth Train Panama
Mentor: Nathan Gray 
http://www.earthtrain.org
Internship on the Centro Madrono Campus in the Highlands of Panama near Chepo.
Jake Sullivan playing soccer on Earth Train's Centro Madrono upper campus.
Jake is a Telluride High School senior.
Letters from the Field
Kyle Rasmussen - BRIT In Fort Worth Texas and Andes to Amazon Research Station
Mentors: Jason Best & John Janovec
BRIT http://www.brit.org/
ANdes to Amazon: http://www.andesamazon.org/
Letters from the Field
Week 1 & 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 6 & 7 - Final Report
Marena Maupin - Gerace Research Station, San Salvador, Bahamas
Nucla High School Junior.
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Rothfus/Taphonomy Studied Reef Biology
http://www.geraceresearchcenter.com
Letters from the Field
Marena next to an endangered San Salvador Rock Iguana, these iguanas are extremely rare and found in only a 2 or 3 small keys.
Dixon Hill Lighthouse which is one of the remaining two, manpowered kerosene lit lighthouses
Marena at Grotto Beach and on her first day of snorkeling at San Salvador, Bahamas
Grayson Zulauf - Earth Train Panama
Mentor: Nathan Gray
http://www.earthtrain.org
Internship on the Centro Madrono Campus in the Highlands of Panama near Chepo
Grayson got accepted to Dartmouth but is deferring for a year to do this internship w EarthTrain.
The photos shows Grayson Zulauf at a traditional Kuna Yala Village
Letters from the Field
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 5
Week 7
Marlee Mitchell - California Academy of Sciences
Marlee with Dr. Jeremy Miller at the "spider lab" at the California Academy of Sciences where she runs experiments like the Polymerase Chain Reactions (PCR)
Marlee will be a Telluride High School senior this year. She was selected as an outstanding candidate for the Pinhead Internship program and decided to do her internship at San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences.
Mentor: Dr. Jeremy Miller/ Entomology California Academy of Sciences - Spider morphology, relationships and phylogenies.
http://www.calacademy.org/geninfo/newsroom/
releases/2006/Miller_spider.php
Letters from the Field
Nikki Gallen - Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Due to the remote nature of Nikki's internship she is unable to have internet access. Please stay tuned for her reports which she will post as soon as she is able.
Letters from the Field
The non-profit conservation organizations where Nikki is doing her field studies is
AMBICOR - Corcovado National Park
http://www.corcovado.org/
Mentor: Andres Vegas
She is studying forest birds, butterflies, trees and mammals
ANAI - Osa Penisula Marine turtle research
Mentor: Fabian Sanchez
http://www.anaicr.org/
Friends of the Osa
Mentor: Aida Bustamante
She will be doing photo trap biology, monitoring mammals through photographic traps set in the forest.
http://www.osaconservation.org
Nikki identifying and tagging butterflies from Corcovado National Park, recording data
Dawson White - BRIT In Fort Worth Texas and Andes to Amazon Research Station
Mentors: Jason Best & John Janovec
BRIT http://www.brit.org/
ANdes to Amazon: http://www.andesamazon.org/
Letters from the Field
Week 1
Week 2 & 3
Final Report
Photos from Dawson