Past station interns

Madelyn Cloutier

Intern in 2022
Now I am enjoying working seasonally. In the summers, I am a tour guide at the Soudan Underground Mine State Park. In the winters, I go wherever the wind takes me within environmental education. Some highlights include becoming a graduate naturalist at Wolf Ridge ELC and working as a tour guide at Wind Cave National Park.
At IBSL, I learned practical skills right along with broader takeaways like seeing how working outdoors can go hand in hand with research, science communication, education, and community. My time at the station had a direct influence on my path moving forward, and the experiences and connections I gained while there were truly invaluable.

Intern in 2020
I currently live in Edina, Minnesota, and work as a consulting arborist with The Davey Tree Expert Company out of the South Minneapolis office. I consult in east Edina, southwest Minneapolis and the Lake of the Isles area to help clients maintain the health of their trees and shrubs throughout their landscape and in the urban environment.
The opportunity to intern at the Itasca Biological Station was my first introduction to Minnesota's Northwoods and fostered my passion for forestry, which would eventually lead me to begin my career as an arborist. I have the IBSL, which exposed me to a diverse field of study such as hydrology, forest ecology and animal behavior, among others, to thank for getting me started. If you are looking to chart your course in an environmental field and build a network with students with the same enthusiasm for our world as you do, then the IBSL is the best starting point you can get.