Leone Yisrael is a cephalopod-loving scuba diver, cook, and loves to try new activities. She conducts genetic analysis and fieldwork at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center through the Coastal Disease Ecology Lab.
Fellowship Experiences
A blog by and about students supported by Maryland Sea Grant
Photo, Debbie Hinkle
Changing Course: From Ocean Research to Ocean Policy
Maureen Brooks •
In January 2019, I was a graduate student at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. I came to work each morning in jeans and a t-shirt and focused on my research: modeling the biology and physics of floating seaweed. Read more...
My Pursuit to Understand Society through Science (and Vice-Versa)
Daniel Teodoro •
Sometimes I feel like great scientific insights are not having an impact in societal and governmental decisions. That is particularly the case for climate science, but it is also in different scientific fields (e.g., engineering, forensic science, smart cities, etc.). As researchers, we like to think we know better, and that if others would know what we know the world would be a better place. Read more...
Studying Water From The Air: Learning to fly drones
Hayley Oakland •
As a burgeoning aquatic ecologist and environmental scientist, I never anticipated needing to know how to fly a drone.
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Using Phytoplankton Communities to Track the Restoration of the Anacostia River
Samantha Gleich •
I tend to think of phytoplankton as the “forests” of an aquatic environment. Much like trees in a terrestrial ecosystem, phytoplankton form the base of the aquatic food web and are critically important to the overall structure and function of an ecosystem. Read more...
The Four Busiest Months of My Knauss Fellowship
Noelle Olsen •
By the time the Knauss fellowship begins in early February, fellows are at various stages of their graduate career: Law students may have graduated but are awaiting their Bar exam results; a Ph.D. Read more...
