Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe partners with the University of Nevada, Reno Pack Internship Grant Program in the Spring to provide a on-hands paid internship experience with the Water Quality Program. A few tasks the intern works on is:
Water quality testing in laboratory
Collect samples from various reservation sites
Plan and organize the summer Environmental Youth Camp
Use and operate monitoring equipment
River and bio assessments which includes hiking
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2024, 2023
In November 2013, the Water Quality Program was requested to assist a class of Environmental Engineering students from UNR to help design and supervise their final project. The students needed to come up with a project that allowed them to analyze grab samples from the Lower Truckee River to determine the affect the ecosystem has on the available nutrients within the water column as it travels downstream, and what factors can be contributing to nutrients and the different types of issues it can bring up. The students learned how to properly grab samples from surface waters, what to look for when sampling i.e. invasive plants, types of non-point source pollution like cattle grazing on the river, illegal dumpsites and public recreation.
