Melissa spent the summer as part of a Salmon Counting Tower Project, which meant that she needed to count salmon that swim up river river to spawn, both visually and with sonar. She also conducted boat maintenance, salmon scaling, and salmon carcassing. Melissa loved the internship because she was able to work with great, hardworking people, and because she was able to be outside every day. Zoology class and Ocean Studies seminar helped her prepare for the internship by giving her an understanding of fish reproduction (zoology) and introducing her to Atlantic salmon behavior (seminar), which happen to have some similarities to Pacific salmon.