Emily Greenhalgh wishes she didn’t challenge a rock climbing wall last May because otherwise she would have been able to spend more time in the field this summer instead of in a cubicle at the Environmental Protection Agency in Narragansett.

A fall resulted in damage to her knee and confined her to crutches—and office work—for most of the summer instead of enjoying some field work as she did at the EPA during a summer internship last summer.

But doing office work on accumulated data has been worthwhile, she says, because it will be a plus on her resume when she pursues other ventures.

Greenhalgh was graduated this spring from URI with a degree in marine biology and has been working at EPA much of the year. But that work will end with the summer and Greenhalgh is hoping something else comes up—mainly a position she has applied for with Raytheon Corp. which has an opening for an Antarctica project.

Landing that job, she says, would fit in well with her eventual plans to go to graduate school and pursue studies in environmental policies.

As far as climbing rock walls in the future, she doesn’t rule that out. “I’d like to try that again,” she says.