While interning at the Natural Capital Project, Kirsten Howard assisted with the development of the Belize Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan. She designed and traveled to Belize to carry out an assessment of the effectiveness of stakeholder engagement during the planning process and provided preliminary recommendations to key actors about how to improve the engagement process going forward. She also assisted with efforts to understand the current state of ecosystem service science and attempts to connect ecosystem services to non-financial dimensions of human well-being. Kirsten learned the process for conducting an ecosystem service assessment, as well as current trends in the ecosystem service space. She was able to meet and speak with many others doing really interesting work in the ecosystem service science realm. And she had a lot of fun at WWF!