Kayla Cayemitte
My passion for environmental science is rooted in a deep belief that people and the environment are inherently interconnected, and that science should strengthen this relationship. I am particularly drawn…
Quintin Diou-Cass
As a native of Maine, I grew up exploring the evergreen forests and rocky beaches of New England in places like Acadia National Park. It was the numerous tidepools and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hailey Riechelson
My interest is science began with a great high school biology teacher and I found my way to marine science a few years later. For my undergrad, I completed joint…
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…
Theodore Thompson
As a young Bahamian, I was always within walking distance to the beach. However, my interest in marine science did not begin until I moved to the outer Island of…