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CMBC Ocean Leaders the News:   

Kelly Keen, MAS 2012
Named 2013 California Sea Grant Fellow

Kelly Keen earned her master's degree in marine biodiversity and conservation from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in 2012. Her thesis explored deep-water sound propagation from seismic air-gun surveys in the Arctic, possible consequences for bowhead whales and native subsistence communities, and the effectiveness of mitigation measures put in place to reduce these possible impacts.

As a State Fellow at the California State Lands Commission, she will be "working on a variety of complex and challenging marine and coastal issues concerning offshore geophysical and seismic surveys, marine renewable energy technologies, and marine debris."

 

 

 

Ryan Wulff. MAS 2006
Appointed by President Obama
Deputy United States Commissioner, International Whaling Commission
read press release ...

Carolina BeheCarolina Behe, MAS 2011
As Traditional Knowledge/Science Advisor to the Inuit Circumpolar Council - Alaska, Carolina is working with 95 tribal councils to identify the baselines and priorities to assess the vulnerabilities of food security.  This involves understanding traditional knowledge of ice coverage, food web dynamics and the threats resulting from climate changes and increased human presence in the Arctic. Read her article on the project (beginning on page 3) in the monthly newletter.   more on the food security summit

Another three Alumni head to Washington, DC

Congratulations 2012 Knauss Fellows:
Miriam Goldstein, PhD, Grant Galland, PhD, and Kristin Anderson, MAS

Julianna MullenJulianna Mullen, MAS 2010
Dive program administrator for the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas

Kate Hanson (Karkoylu), Ph.D.  2011
Recently appointed Science Editorial Fellow, Network of Conservation Educators & Practitioners at the American Museum of Natural History, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, New York, New York where she develops case studies, exercises and curriculum for undergraduate and graduate level conservation biology classes.
http://ncep.amnh.org


Kristen MarhaverKristen Marhaver PhD. 2010
Making science accessible. 
"Science is not news.. it's a product"
Watch her lecture at Google on youtube or read her Science Progress article.



Steve Chappel
Steve Chappel, MAS (2006)
Launched a new column (10/2011) in the San Diego Union-Tribune called "INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL" about game-changing people and issues.  Read his latest article.

 

 

 

Sheila Walsh PhD
At The Nature Conservancy connecting reef health and human welfare 

http://www.conservationgateway.org/node/1311



Ayana Johnson, PhD, Katie Cramer, PhD, and Amanda Keedjian, MAS
Knauss Fellowship recipients for 2011

 

Octavio Aburto, PhD
UCSD TV:  Gulf of California Deep Sea Secrets
Video:  http://www.ucsd.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=16076

Biodiversity: The Key to Productivity

 

 
Vardi photo missing/
Tali Vardi, PhD, Alexis Rife, MAS and Katherine Seto, MAS
Knauss Fellowship recipients 2010


Adam Baske, MAS
Knauss Fellowship recipients 2009

Jessica Wiseman 

Jessica Wiseman, MAS

International Communications Manager for Oceana 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Current MAS Alumni Profiles can be found here: MAS Alumni Profiles

Alumni, please contact us with your news and profile updates.  Thank you!

 

 

 

Alumni Community Contacts:

Matt Huelsenbeck (MAS Class of 2010) matthuelsenbeck@gmail.com 

Kim McIntrye (MAS Class of 2007) kmcintrye@soe.ucsd.edu

"One of the greatest scientific challenges facing society today is understanding, protecting, managing, and restoring biodiversity in our oceans.

—Nancy Knowlton
Founding Director, CMBC