- CHESAPEAKE SEMESTER
- PROGRAMS
- Programs
- Chester River Field Research Center
- Chester River Watershed Observatory
- President's Climate Action Committee
- Chestertown Goes Green
- Community Greening Toolkit
- Urban Greening
- Oyster Restoration
- Friends of Eastern Neck
- Sustainability at WC
- Beyond the Classroom
- Archaeology Lab
- GIS
- Rural Community Leadership
- Eastern Shore Birds
- NEWS & EVENTS
- INTERNSHIPS
- ABOUT
- HOME
Benjy Duke
Benjy's experiences with CES through his internship and the Chesapeake Semester have given him a background that has already proven valuable in his post graduate endeavors.
CES Intern 2010
Benjy Duke '10 interned with the Center for Environment & Society in the spring semester of 2010. Benjy was a Humanities major with a minor in Art and Art History. He also was a participant in WC’s first Chesapeake Semester in Fall of ’09 and has a concentration in Chesapeake Bay regional studies as a result.
“My semester as a CES intern, I focused on re-establishing relationships with some of the lecturers of the Chesapeake Semester. I also formed a database for current and future internship/fellowship opportunities for WAC students that are interested in the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. Flying under the mighty wing of Mike Hardesty, I built oyster floats for a oyster restoration project called 'Marylanders Grow Oysters' that helped protect and rebuild oyster population in the lower Chester River.”
Where He is Now
I have lived in Wyoming since I graduated in May ’10. During the summer I was the head fly-fishing guide at the A Bar A ranch in southern Wyoming. At the Ranch I not only guided 6 days a week, but also wrote a water quality and fisheries report on the Ranch's 37 miles of private water. I determined the water quality by evaluating and recording macro-invertebrates, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, water depth, and flow. The river researched was the upper North Platte River, and three smaller tributaries. By studying the water quality of the rivers I was able to determine the health of the trout population and how fishing changed throughout the duration of the year.
Now I live in Jackson, Wyoming and I am a ski instructor for the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. I will stay the summer in Jackson and hope to land a job with a local stream restoration firm, Wyoming's Game and Fish, or the Forestry Service.