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 from taking a biogeochemical oceanography course that opened my eyes to the interdisciplinary nature of the field. From there, various...
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 and encouraging teachers helped foster my interests throughout public school. They believed I could make it as a marine scientist,...
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 that’s when I knew that math and science were going to be part of my life. In High School I...
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 B.A.s with the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Columbia University. I was politically active on campus and was introduced...
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 me than digging holes in the intertidal zone and collecting anything living I could find – coquina clams, moon jellies,...
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 Eleuthera. Eleuthera, meaning freedom, is a sparsely populated island only a mile in width with the Caribbean Sea on one...
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 Haskin Shellfish Research Lab (HSRL) and I study the ecosystem services provided by oyster aquaculture in the Delaware Bay region....
Jonathan Sherman
Growing up in Israel, I spent many weekends in the Mediterranean Sea where my love of the ocean begun. It was always clear to me that I would pursue a career in marine sciences. After serving in the Israeli Navy I completed my B.S. in Marine Biotechnology at the Ruppin...
Sarah Murphy
My interest in oceanography developed out of my general appreciation for nature and environmentalism. I grew up in Rockland County, NY and enjoyed hiking along the Hudson River and northern highlands of the Appalachian Mountains. I was first exposed to the ocean sciences during my senior year of high school...
Liza Wright-Fairbanks
My interest in ocean science first developed in high school, when I attended a summer session at the Island School on Cape Eleuthera, the Bahamas. There, I lived on a sustainable campus deeply connected to the surrounding marine environment and participated in research at the Cape Eleuthera Institute. I followed...