We are always open to host students for internships. With us you can learn and perfect practical day-to-day skills relevant in stream ecology and river restoration:

• electrofishing for assessing freshwater fish community
• macroinvertebrate community sampling
• stream hidrogeomorphology assessment
• barrier measurement and impact assessments
• remote sensing of barriers via GIS
• barrier mapping across large watersheds

Past interns

Maria Alexandra Aguero

University of Bremen

Biology student

Maria (or Mariale) is helping us inmensly with both GIS and field work. She has been working on updating the database of barriers in germany, including lateral barriers. She is doing her bachelor’s thesis on identifying lateral barriers remotely with Arif Jan.

Enzo Hernando Cunha

Universidade de Vigo

Biology student

Enzo helped us map longitudinal and lateral barriers in more than 20kms of streams in the Verdugo-Oitavén basin during the 2025 summer field work season.

Eva Stanescu Castiñeira

Universidade de Vigo

Biology student

Eva helped us assesing the impact of low head barriers and barrier mapping during the 2025 summer field work season.

Marta González Tizón

Universidade de Vigo

Biology student

Marta helped us assesing the impact of low head barriers during the 2025 summer field work season. She also mapped barriers to free flow during river walkovers.

Vanessa Janker

HLUW Yspertal (Austria)

Erasmus student

Vanessa helped us in both dry lab and field work during the summer of 2025 as part of her internship within the Erasmus+ program.

Smilla Harrauer

HLUW Yspertal (Austria)

Erasmus student

Smilla helped us in both dry lab and field work during the summer of 2025 as part of her internship within the Erasmus+ program.