If you keep up with the CRFPO blog,
you might recall seeing my name a few entries back. My name is Christina Uh; I
am one of just two PATHWAYS students working at the Columbia River Fisheries
Program Office. I currently am a member of the administrative team in the
office, working as a student office assistant. Or if you prefer fancy titles, I
am an “Office Automation Clerk”.
To give you a quick snapshot of who I am, you would need to
know four important things:
1)
I am (very proudly!) the first in my entire
family to go to a 4 year university.
2)
I am a member of the Navajo Nation (not tribally
enrolled) from my mother and Hispanic from my father. Specifically, my father
is from a little place called Oxcutzcab, Yucatan and we have the indigenous
Mayans’ blood running in our veins! Pretty cool huh?
3)
I love being outdoors, fishing, hiking, and the
Portland Trail Blazers.
4)
I LOVE my family and my dog Maddie (check out
her cute face below).
My job here at the office is pretty
great. Some of the things I get to work on are; making sure timesheets are
correct and ready to be certified, any and all things relating to our staff
traveling for work, and other miscellaneous office duties. I consider myself to
be two times luckier than the average student office assistant because I also
get to spend some time away from the desk.
Once a week I pay a visit to Eagle
Creek National Fish Hatchery to feed larval lamprey, or “my little dudes” (as I
like to call them). There are 20 tanks, each containing 8 lamprey that all get
fed different treatments as part of a captive rearing project. I also try to
take advantage of any volunteer activities that I can. For example, over the
summer I spent a day working with a crew at the Julia Butler Hansen Refuge
catching White-tailed deer for relocation.
I am incredibly thankful for the
opportunity to work at the CRFPO. Not only do I learn something new every day I
go to work, I also get to expand my skills in multiple different areas. I get
to learn the “behind the scenes” portion of fisheries work, as well as gain
some hands-on, in the field experience. Something I could not have done at just
any ol’ office position.
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| Hiking at King's Mountain |
