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wHO AM I?

I grew up in a small Amish town nestled in northwestern Pennsylvania. My passion for sustainability grew out of witnessing the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) boom in my hometown after my first year at Dickinson College.

 

I worked with a local grassroots organization in my town and collaborated with the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) to set up a workshop to train volunteer stream monitors to watch for pollution events associated with the new fracking boom.

 

Back at Dickinson, I worked for ALLARM as an environmental educator and lab coordinator. I collaborated with local schools to engage children in aquatic conservation. In the lab, I analyzed water samples sent in from volunteers monitoring local streams just like the ones in my hometown.

 

My work with aquatics grew into a passion for marine science. I spent my junior year studying at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia and the School for Field Studies in the Turks and Caicos. My research spanned both hard and soft science; I studied both corals and communities.

 

In my final year at school, I returned to ALLARM and began studying the science and governance of climate change with the Dickinson mosaic. My personal research focused on how climate change would impact the small island states and how ocean issues were discussed within international climate change negotiations.  

 

I recently graduated Dickinson College with a degree in Environmental Science and am looking towards the future to integrate marine science, community engagement, and sustainability.

 

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