These first few weeks of September marked my stay in the fairly wild Pacific Northwest.  I started in British Columbia, Canada, where I visited John deBoeck, the owner and operator at the Browning Pass HideAway Dive Resort. The HideAway is an array of floating cabins tucked into Clam Cove (google Nigei Island to see where […]

After my time in Southern California I shot up north to my old stomping grounds in the Bay Area. My first stop was Monterey, where I visited Light & Motion in Marina where I learned all about their assembly process and the different types of lights and housings they make! After Marina I went up […]

Without the amazing sponsorships, the OWUSS Rolex Scholarship year would not be possible and these past weeks I was lucky to visit some of these sponsors. My first stop was Santa Ana, where I visited Ocean Technology Systems and got the grand tour from Renee Pelissier. I got to learn about all their different full-face […]

For the last couple of weeks I have been working in Santa Barbara with Dr. Doug McCauley from UC Santa Barbara on a Giant Sea Bass Count project. This project, done in collaboration with Dr. Milton Love (UCSB) and researchers at CSU Northridge, encouraged any and all recreational divers in California to get in the […]

There are over 556 National Wildlife Refuges in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s National Wildlife Refuge system, and for the past two weeks I volunteered as acting Refuge Manager for Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.  Due to some unexpected circumstances, Palmyra’s Refuge Manager could not remain on the island. Given my past experience as a […]