2017-2019 EPP/MSI undergraduate scholar profiles

Name:  Camisha Few

School: Florida A&M University (FL)

Major: Environmental Science

 

Summer 1:  National Marine Fisheries Service

Office:  Office of Protected Resources

Project Title: Creation of a Database of Historic Distributions of Endangered Species Act-listed Corals in Non-US Jurisdictions in the Caribbean

 

Summer 2:  National Ocean Service

Office:  Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Monterey, California

Project Title: Sanctuary Biodiversity Assessment for West Coast Region

 

Name:  Draven Hawk 

School:  University of California - Santa Cruz (CA)

Major:  Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

 

Summer 1: National Marine Fisheries Service

Office:  Office of Science & Technology

Project Title: Documenting Sea Turtle and/or Marine Mammal Life History Traits to Support Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments

 

Summer 2: National Marine Fisheries Service

Office:  Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA

Project Title: Remote Acoustic Monitoring of Killer Whales in the Northeast Pacific

 

Name:  Sarfo Kantanka 

School:  Florida A&M University (FL)

Major:  Biology

 

Summer 1:  National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

Office:  National Centers for Environmental Information

Project Title:  A Comparison Between Research-Quality Baseline Climatological Ocean Data Products for Climate Studies

 

Name: Danielle Olive

School: University of the Virgin Islands (VI)

Major: Biology with Minor in Environmental Science

 

Summer 1: National Marine Fisheries Service

Office: Office of Habitat Conservation

Project Title: Characterizing the History of Legal Regulations to Protect Deep-Sea Coral

 

Summer 2: National Marine Fisheries Service

Office: Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Project Title: Quantifying the impacts of temperature and elevated CO2 levels on blood oxygen affinity of Clearnose skate, Raja eglanteria

 

Name:  Nikola Rodriguez 

School:  University of Hawaii, Hilo (HI)

Major:  Marine Science/Biology with Minors in Chemistry and Atmospheric Science

 

Summer 1:  Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research

Office:  Ocean Exploration & Research

Project Title:  Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Underwater Video Annotations

 

Summer 2: National Marine Fisheries Service

Office: NOAA Pacific Regional Center, Hawaii

Project Title:  Evaluating Corals of Opportunity for an Nursery/Husbandry area in Kaneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu

 

Name:  Stephen Thompson 

School:  North Carolina A&T University (NC)

Major:  Chemistry

 

Summer 1: National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

Office:  Center for Satellite Applications and Research

Project Title:  An Evaluation of NOAA's Blended Ice Concentrations

 

Summer 2: National Marine Fisheries Service

Office:  Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Florida

Project Title:  Identification and analysis of size frequency in relation to distance to shore of Farfantepenaeid shrimps in the nearshore mangrove-seagrass ecotone of southern Biscayne Bay, Florida.

 

Name:  Kayleen Torres

School:  University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (PR)

Major:  Meteorology and Physics

 

Summer 1:  Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research

Office:   Policy Planning & Evaluation

Project Title:  How Close is the U.S. to one hour Tornado Warnings?

 

Summer 2: National Weather Service

Office:   Weather Forecast Office, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Project Title: Validation of satellite estimates in the Northeast Caribbean

 

Name:  Imani Wilburn 

School:  Bowie State University (MD)

Major:  Biology

 

Summer 1: National Marine Fisheries Service

Office: Office of Habitat Conservation

Project Title: Evaluating Collaboration and Science for Management Applications in Landscape-Scale Conservation

 

Summer 2: National Marine Fisheries Service

Office: Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Beaufort Lab, North Carolina 

Project Title: Atlantic Menhaden: Age comparison between reading scales and otoliths