Sam Alaimo

I grew up on Long Island but spent most of my summers exploring the lakes and streams in Pennsylvania. I’m an avid fisher and have always been curious about what…

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Leah Hopson

My interests in physical oceanography stemmed from my passion to study continuously changing phenomena in nature, such as tropical cyclones! This urge to study weather events began around the time…

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Joseph Gradone

Having grown up in central New Jersey (yes, it exists!), it took me moving to landlocked Colorado to discover my interest in oceanography. My initial interest in oceanography was sparked…

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Ryan Glaubke

I was born and raised along the southern shores of Virginia Beach, where my proximity to the coast quickly instilled a love for the ocean. In these early years, caring…

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Jackie Veatch

While my brothers played with our Nintendo Game Boy, I was tinkering around with my dad’s graphing calculator looking for patterns in how I added and multiplied numbers together… and…

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Lauren Cook

My interest in the marine world stemmed from a childhood in the Tidewater region of Virginia and family trips to neighboring North Carolinian beaches. There was nothing more thrilling to…

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Janine Barr

My name is Janine Barr and I am a second year graduate student pursuing a Master’s in Oceanography with Dr. Daphne Munroe as my advisor. I am based at the…

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