Meet our 2018 Intern, Jillian!

​My name is Jill Sower, and I will be a senior at Virginia Tech, studying Wildlife Conservation with a double major in Spanish. Throughout my time as a student, I have participated in a few research studies, as well as taken courses in habitat evaluation, population estimation and dynamics, wildlife biology, and many others. I currently volunteer in one of my professor’s disease ecology laboratory, which focuses on antibiotic resistance testing of E. coli samples from banded mongoose from Botswana, as I am interested in working with wildlife disease when I graduate. Although I do not have direct experience working with sea turtles, I have taken courses in herpetology and learned a lot about their biology and life history.  I have always been fascinated by sea turtles, and am very excited to work as an intern for Edisto Beach State Park this summer and learn about these amazing creatures!