My name is Isabel Ahlstrom, and I am an AmeriCorps member who joined the American Conservation Experience Mountain-West conservation corps for a 6-month term in 2018 and am now serving a year-long term with the ACE EPIC internship program. I am working as a Hydrological Technician for the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Division; Appalachian Highlands Network and spend my days collecting data for the long-term stream and river monitoring programs at the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Obed Wild and Scenic River and Blue Ridge Parkway.