"I'm currently working on my second Bachelor's degree at NOVA and George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. This time focusing on Oceanography and Marine Geology. I'm from Maine, and I love the ocean. Marine biology has always been a hobby of mine.

I've worked at the Boothbay Aquarium in Maine and California's Monterey Bay Aquarium, where I worked inside the penguin exhibit. Oceanograpy is a combination of geology, biology, chemistry, and so much more, so I'm always interested in the intersection of these subjects. I have a particular passion for bioluminescent ecosystems in the benthic abyssal ocean trenches, as well as the life that survives on Mount Erebus in Antarctica. Eventually I hope to research hydrothermal vent ecosystems." less...