2020-2022 EPP/MSI undergraduate scholar profiles

Name: Teemer Barry
School: University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Major: Environmental Science
 
Summer 1
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Narragansett, Rhode Island
Project Title: Visualization of planktonic flow cytometry data collected by NOAA vessels.
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Office of Protected Resources, 
Project Title: GIS development and production
Name: Ilyana Collins
School: University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Major: Chemistry
 
Summer 1
Office: Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Pacific Marine Environmental Lab, Seattle, Washington
Project Title: Investigation of the air-sea heat and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake at the KEO buoy in the NW Pacific Kuroshio Extension recirculation gyre.
 
Summer 2
Office: Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Pacific Marine Environmental Lab
Project Title: Documenting the evolving state of ocean CO2 uptake and ocean acidification.
 

Name: Semaj Fielding

School: University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Major: Environmental Science
 
Summer 1
Office: National Ocean Service, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Monterey, California
Project Title: Expanding Species Database for West Coast National Marine Sanctuaries.
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Office of Science and Technology
Project Title: Regulations, policies, statutes, and laws relating to regional observer programs.
 
Name: Lily Gavagan
School: University of Hawai’i Hilo
Major: Marine Science
 
Summer 1
Office: National Ocean Service, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Silver Spring, Maryland
Project Title: Marine ecology internship with a focus on soniferous species.
 
Summer 2
Office: National Ocean Service, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Silver Spring, Maryland
Project Title: Biodiversity in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
 
Name: Alexandra Grayson
School: Howard University
Major: Environmental Studies
 
Summer 1
Office: National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Center for Environmental Information, Asheville, North Carolina
Project Title: Documenting the value of NOAA data
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Project Title: Meta-analysis of benthic species abundance at offshore wind farms
 
Name: Erianna Hammond
School: Savannah State University
Major: Marine Science
 
Summer 1
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Project Title: Marine mammal strikes in the Greater Atlantic Region.
 
Summer 2
Office: National Ocean Service, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Scituate, MA.
Project Title: Feeding strategies of humpback whales
 
Name: Noah Jenkins
School: Humboldt State University
Major: Marine Biology
 
Summer 1
Office: National Ocean Service, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Monterey, California
Project Title: Expanding species database for west coast national marine sanctuaries
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Fisheries, West Coast Regional Office
Project Title: Aquaculture growing methods and environmental regulations
 
Name: Monica Keim
School: Alaska Pacific University
Major: Environmental Science
 
Summer 1
Office: NOAA Fisheries, West Coast Regional Office, Portland, Oregon
Project Title: Why is it hard to measure salmon recovery?
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Interior Columbia Basin Office, Boise, Idaho
Project Title: Wallowa Lake Dam repair studies
 
Name: Brittany Melton
School: Tuskegee University
Major: Animal Science
 
Summer 1
Office:  National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Silver Spring, Maryland
Project Title: Toxicity data analysis with NCCOS Monitoring and Assessment Branch.
 
Summer 2
Office:  NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California
Project Title: Using passive acoustic data to assess sperm whale population structure in the California Current.
 
Name: Daniel Montoya
School: San Diego Mesa College
Major: Natural Resources Management
 
Summer 1
Office:  NOAA Fisheries, West Coast Regional Office, Portland, Oregon
Project Title: Tribal relations in the NMFS West Coast Regional Office.
 
Summer 2
Office:  NOAA Fisheries, Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office, Gloucester, Massachusetts 
Project Title: Marine aquaculture resource inventory for the Greater Atlantic Region.
 
Name: Adriana Muñoz Soto
School: University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
Major: Mechanical Engineering
 
Summer 1
Office:  Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Narragansett, Rhode Island
Project Title: Mechanical design with the URI DEEPi Program.
 
Summer 2
Office:  Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Narragansett, Rhode Island
Project Title: Design analysis of an aerial drone-based imaging payload system for deep-sea exploration.
 

Name: Tzunami Santiago
School: University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
Major: Mechanical Engineering

Summer 1 
Office:  National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Technology, Planning and Integration for Observation, Silver Spring, Maryland
Project Title: Exploring NOAA's Observing Systems:  Do they fulfill environmental observing requirements?

Summer 2
Office: National Ocean Service, Office of the Coast Survey, Silver Spring, Maryland
Project Title: Ocean mapping innovation with NOAA Office Of Coast Survey’s Hydrographic Systems and Technology Branch

Name: Abigail Schulz
School: Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Major: Marine Biology

Summer 1
Office:  National Ocean Service, Coral Reef Conservation Program, Silver Spring, Maryland
Project Title: Interpreting and analyzing data received from the Structure from Motion (SfM) technology as used on coral reefs.

Summer 2
Office:  National Ocean Service, Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, Maryland 
Project Title: Automatically classify coral species using artificial intelligence.

Name: Mya Sharpe
School: Morgan State University
Major: Biology

Summer 1
Office:  National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, Maryland
Project Title: Harmful algal blooms and ocean acidification - priorities for future research.

Summer 2
Office:  NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 
Project Title: Endangered Atlantic salmon research: scale aging & analysis of emigration patterns and growth to inform recovery efforts.

Name: Alycia Triplett
School: Jackson State University
Major: Meteorology

Summer 1
Office:  National Weather Service - Severe, Fire, Public, and Winter Weather Services Branch, Silver Spring, Maryland
Project Title: Use of weather information for decision support.

Summer 2
Office:  National Weather Service, Weather Forecasting Office, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Project Title: Thunderstorm speed and its relation to injuries and fatalities