Check out this essay from our 2025 summer HWF intern, Elizabeth Allen. She supported several critical projects on Hawaiʻi Island, including marine debris removal in Kaʻū, coastline surveys, native seed collection, invasive species control, and anchialine pool restoration projects.
Check out this internship essay from Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund summer 2024 intern, Joshua Landkamer, describing his experience working with the Hawaiʻi Island HWF team.
Ella Hartmann was an intern with Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund during the summer of 2023. Here is her story!
Mike Stone was a graduate student working with HWF during his internship within the Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science Master’s program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo from Fall 2019 to Fall 2021. During this time, Mike worked with HWF’s Megan Lamson (as his graduate advisor) and completed over 700 volunteer hours with HWF and focused on a brand audit study for marine debris collected in Kaʻū from 2013-2021. We are so appreciative of his amazing contribution to HWF.
Jaya Mishra was an intern with the Hawai’i Wildlife Fund team on Maui from June to July 2023. Here is her wonderful account of her experience with HWF.
Learn more about the experience of Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund Intern, Ramzi Talbi, who joined our team all the way from Patagonia and helped support the Hawksbill (Honuʻea) Sea Turtle Recovery project.
Learn more about Alex Xia's experience during his Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund internship, which unfortunately encompassed the devastating wild fires in Lahaina, Mauʻi. Not only did Alex help make our sea turtle recovery project a success, he helped support our Maui community following the fires.
Learn more about Pippin Paulson's amazing experience as a Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund intern, where she supporting our sea turtle recovery projects in both 2019 and 2023 and helped support our community on Maui during the 2023 Lahaina wild fires.
HWF intern, Hannah Pond, reflects on her experience over the summer of 2023 on Maui.
HWF intern, Daniela Guerrero, shares her experience as an intern with HWF on Maui in 2023.
