Intern standing in front of cave

I recently obtained my B.S. in Physiology and B.A. in Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I am now a first year master's student enrolled in California State University, Chico's Interdisciplinary Studies: Wildland Management program. Through this graduate program, I am studying the influence of liability, legislation, and policies in regard to the conduction of prescribed (Rx) fires throughout California and identifying specific barriers of Rx fire's current usage. My interest in the Mosaics in Science program is tied to personal and professional reasons. Finding Asian representation (and diversity in general) in the environmental and natural resource fields poses a challenge in itself already, but finding diversity in the specific field that is "fire" is also a challenge of its own! Being able to work in this Fire Ecology Assistant position at Lava Beds National Monument will allow me to be that representation in the natural resource and fire fields and also help further my studies from another point-of-view.