Category: Where are they now?
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Update from the North
Update from the Alaskan senior thesis students: Katie’18 has built her cabin! Zach Brown’07 and Laura Marcus were married in August! My whole family went for the big event and fell in love with both the town of Gustavus and Laura.
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Island reunions and PSG introductions!
Two wonderful alums found themselves studying seabirds together on Matinicus Rock as part of the Puffin Project in the Gulf of Maine. The Puffins called them back for a second season; Kay was a Puffineer last summer and Clare was one the summer before last. Kristina’12 was a Puffineer several years ago– it was wonderful…
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? PART XII
Nik’11 who studied how the distribution of seabirds varied around Santa Barbara Island for his senior thesis, is finishing his Master’s degree in Economics at the Univerzita Karlova, in Prague, Czech Republic. He is doing the important work of environmental economics. He has managed to combine his interests in biology, botany and economics! Nik made…
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Where are they now? Part XI
Sagehens with Albatrosses! Both Kristina McOmber’12 and Nai de Gracia’14 are working on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge! Here they are fixing a gapped band of a black-footed albatross. Albatross are so long lived that they need their bands re-closed if they start to develop gaps in order to last the next several decades.
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Where are they now? PART X
Nola Shi’15 has sent an update on her postgrad research adventures in Oregon! “We finished up our woody riparian and wet meadow point counts. We basically trudged 6-8 miles through marshland (nothing like water and cow poop sloshing around in your hiking boots for several hours!) and through fields with grasses taller than I am…
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Relaxing at home before heading to WHOI!
I don’t head to woods hole for another few weeks, but I thought I’d let y’all know what was up right now! I’m back home in Kansas City, hanging out with my family and taking care of my doggie (Ralph) and kitty (Reese) Ralph tore the dog equivalent of his ACL, so I’m in…
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Where are they now? PART IX
Kristina’12 who studied Cassin’s auklet diving behavior for her senior thesis, has continued to pursue her passion for birds and remote islands after she graduated. She spends her summers working with the Puffin Project on islands off the coast of Maine and lately has been studying passerines with the Biodiversity Research Institute. http://www.pressherald.com/2014/09/21/a-bird-in-the-hand-is-hopefully-healthy/
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Brief Breakfast Reunion!
Last Sunday Neha’14 came in from Costa Rica, Jamie’14 from La Jolla, Sophie’14 from Los Angeles, and local alums Rose’14, Nai’14, joined seniors Ramon’15 and Dakota’15 and Prof. Karnovsky for breakfast! It was so great to hear about explosive frog breeding events, catching and tagging sharks, writing about biodiversity, working for social justice, building ponds and…
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Where are they now? Part VIII
Dakota’15 is spending her summer at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado on an REU grant (Research Experience for Undergraduates). Charlotte Dohrn’13 who wrote her senior thesis with me is following her passion for sustainable fisheries and is at the UW Fisheries Research Institute field camp on Lake Aleknagik, AK helping to collect data on the run…