Research: North Atlantic Right Whale, University of South Carolina
I am an undergraduate student currently working under PhD student Amadi Sefah-Twerefour via Dr. Erin Meyer-Gutbrod's lab, trying to better understand the correlation between the media and how public perception drives public policy implementation for the North Atlantic right whale. Learn more about the project here.
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I had the opportunity to take a course about RStudio with Dr. Meyer-Gutbrod in the spring of 2023, which has enabled me to better conceptualize data manipulation and modeling. I look forward to using this knowledge in future projects while continuously growing in it.
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In the summer of 2023, I will be partaking in an internship with NOAA, and look forward to what I will take away from it. The internship allows for a better understanding of fisheries and sustainable fishing practices in tandem with policy, which I have a deep interest in.
Internship: NOAA IN FISH 2023
In the summer of 2023 I had the opportunity to take part in a 10-week internship through NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). The first two weeks were spent at Monmouth University in Long Branch, New Jersey, and the latter eight weeks were spent in Washington, D.C. There were 18 students total, and while we all were at Monmouth University together for the first two weeks, we were sent all over the country for the last eight weeks. I was sent to NOAA headquarters in Silver Spring, MD, and worked with the International Affairs office. I was placed with multiple staff to work on various projects, including assisting with updating an international agreements book for fisheries, and condensing multiple web pages into one and assisting in the structure of it. I also aided in coming up with new content on the topic, forced labor on fishing vessels (in regard to IUU fishing (illegal, unreported, and unregulated).
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At the end of the ten weeks I was responsible for presenting a project based on my work at headquarters. I chose to find a correlation between the projects I played a role in while seeing how habitat compression, caused by climate change, will possibly alter the migration pattern of tuna in the Pacific Ocean, causing issues for fisheries, forced labor, seabird bycatch and more.
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Education
January 2022 - Present
Marine Science, B.S.
University of South Carolina
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In January of 2022 I began my journey toward my Bachelor's in Marine Science with the University of South Carolina
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I am working with graduate students and advisors, reading through news articles based on happenings in the U.S. and Canada for right whales
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In the spring of 2023 I had the chance to take an R/R Studio graduate-level class
August 2014 - December 2017
English, B.A.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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In 2014 I began my first Bachelor's degree in English with dual minors in Art History and General History