By Topf Wells
The SWTU Board has just approved our first summer intern with a collaborative project with the UW-Madison Zoological Museum, Dan Oele and other WDNR biologists in southern Wisconsin. She is Kailee Bergee, a senior at UW-Madison pursuing a joint major in Zoology and Conservation Biology with an emphasis on aquatic science and fish biology.
John Lyons, longtime WDNR fisheries research scientist and supervisor (and SWTU member), proposed this project and will oversee Kailee’s work at the museum. WDNR biologists will coordinate her work with the museum, and SWTU will work with Kailee at two of our workdays.
The Museum benefits with more preparation and care of specimens and greater analytic capacity for the summer. Dan and his DNR colleagues will get some much-needed help in field and office work. SWTU will welcome Kailee to our projects and recognizes that her assistance to the DNR and museum strengthens the expertise and care our local streams and trout need. Kailee will learn a lot and gain invaluable experience in her professional development. SWTU recognizes that the long-term health of our fisheries depends in part on having skilled and motivated professionals caring for them. Helping young fisheries professionals develop is as good and necessary for our streams as just about anything else we do.
SWTU is contributing $2500 to this project, which will run about 30 hours a week from late May to mid-August.
Kailee is on track to graduate in December. She worked at the UW-Madison Trout Lake Station last summer – the WDNR Trout Lake Station is for Forestry and the WDNR Fish Research Station is at Escanaba Lake (officially the Northern Highland Fishery Research Area), just down the road but separate. In her statement that she submitted as part of the recruitment for this internship, she described her strong commitment to working as a fisheries professional.
After she was chosen, the Board reviewed all her application material, even her transcripts. For me, at least, it was a humbling experience. How can someone so young have done so much and so well? The museum, DNR, local fish and our Chapter are lucky to have her for a summer’s work. Besides the workdays, we hope to have a chance to hear from Kailee at one of our later summer or early fall meetings.
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Posted: March 10, 2022 by Drew Kasel
SWTU’S First Intern: Meet Kailee Bergee
The SWTU Board has just approved our first summer intern with a collaborative project with the UW-Madison Zoological Museum, Dan Oele and other WDNR biologists in southern Wisconsin. She is Kailee Bergee, a senior at UW-Madison pursuing a joint major in Zoology and Conservation Biology with an emphasis on aquatic science and fish biology.
John Lyons, longtime WDNR fisheries research scientist and supervisor (and SWTU member), proposed this project and will oversee Kailee’s work at the museum. WDNR biologists will coordinate her work with the museum, and SWTU will work with Kailee at two of our workdays.
The Museum benefits with more preparation and care of specimens and greater analytic capacity for the summer. Dan and his DNR colleagues will get some much-needed help in field and office work. SWTU will welcome Kailee to our projects and recognizes that her assistance to the DNR and museum strengthens the expertise and care our local streams and trout need. Kailee will learn a lot and gain invaluable experience in her professional development. SWTU recognizes that the long-term health of our fisheries depends in part on having skilled and motivated professionals caring for them. Helping young fisheries professionals develop is as good and necessary for our streams as just about anything else we do.
SWTU is contributing $2500 to this project, which will run about 30 hours a week from late May to mid-August.
Kailee is on track to graduate in December. She worked at the UW-Madison Trout Lake Station last summer – the WDNR Trout Lake Station is for Forestry and the WDNR Fish Research Station is at Escanaba Lake (officially the Northern Highland Fishery Research Area), just down the road but separate. In her statement that she submitted as part of the recruitment for this internship, she described her strong commitment to working as a fisheries professional.
After she was chosen, the Board reviewed all her application material, even her transcripts. For me, at least, it was a humbling experience. How can someone so young have done so much and so well? The museum, DNR, local fish and our Chapter are lucky to have her for a summer’s work. Besides the workdays, we hope to have a chance to hear from Kailee at one of our later summer or early fall meetings.
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