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The GeoCorps program is a www.geosociety.org/geocorps Clockwise from left: Shelby Short stands on a culvert while holding a measuring pole to take shot measurements for culvert inventories on the Chippewa National Forest; Michael Barrett in Huerfano County, near Gardner, Colorado, performing environmental inspections on a carbon dioxide well on Sheep mountain; Lydia Williams taking the radiation readings with a Geiger counter at a uranium pushpit at Custer Gallatin National Forest; Carli Merrick and Madeline Allen examine field map of Peterson Watershed while doing field work at Huron-Manistee National Forests. 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The GIP program is a partnership between Stewards als in NPS units to assist with short-term projects related to geol- Individual Placement Program, NPS, and GSA. ogy and natural resource science. We thank all participants, www.geosociety.org/gip Clockwise from left: Max Leveridge at Yosemite National Park using a total station as part of a topography survey. Hunter Klein at Carls- bad Caverns National Park, Laura Blackstone at her desk in the Yellowstone Center for Resources, Amelia May at