As I was nearing the last few months of my scholarship year. I continued to explore novel technologies for management. This took me to join former scholar Arzucan Askin in the Maldives. Arzu co-founded Miyaru, a collaborative shark research organization that focuses on studying the intersection of humans and sharks. I got to work alongside […]

I was invited to join Faith Ortins, founder of Blue Green Expeditions, at the far reaches of our world, as she headed to the south pole on an expedition to dive the cold polar waters of the Antarctic. This felt like the final puzzle piece to my year. It had long been my dream to […]

With my new technical diving skills now under my belt, I made my way to La Paz, in Baja California Sur of Mexico to work with the Applied Genomics lab and learn about how they are changing fisheries science with the application of eDNA science. I flew to Mexico from Florida, arriving amidst a beautiful […]

As the new year began, I wanted to challenge myself by building on my diving skillset. I headed to North Carolina to complete my scientific dive training in Morehead, a coastal town that is home to the marine science campus of Duke University.  There I worked with Janelle Flemming, a scientific diver, who among her […]

There are times in your life when new worlds are opened. New worlds you didn’t even know you would love and yet there they are, waiting to be discovered. When I first dove in the ocean, that was one of them. When I first entered a cave, there it was again. That sense of magic […]