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Student-Alum Networking Seminar – Erin Markham – “Just Over the Bridge: Mapping the Path to a Career in Hydrographic Survey”

Erin Markham received her M.S. from GSO in 2015, and was a chemical oceanography student with Rainer Lohmann. She is now a hydrographer at Leidos in Newport, R.I. In this seminar, titled “Just Over the Bridge: Mapping the Path to a Career in Hydrographic Survey,” she discusses her academic and career path.

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GSO professor part of a worldwide study on impacts of bottom trawling on health of seabeds

A fishing trawler pulls into harbor with numerous gulls flying around it.

A worldwide study on the impacts of bottom trawling, which accounts for a quarter of the world’s seafood harvest and can negatively affect marine ecosystems, has found that seabeds are in good health where trawl fisheries are sustainably managed.

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Colleen Peters (alum)

“Having that MBA was really handy because I can now have elevated conversations with my teammates and work out actual business strategy related to equipment and service.” Colleen Peters (M.O. & M.B.A. 2019), who now works at Saildrone, earned her “Blue MBA” which enhanced her existing science background while also giving her the financial and economic know-how to advance her career in a growing commercial industry.

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Fred Short (alum)

“Our research has shown that the biggest threat to eelgrass is the excess nitrogen coming from human sources—mainly wastewater treatment plants.” Fred Short (M.S. 1976) founded SeagrassNet, the Global Seagrass Monitoring Network which is now used at 139 sites on every continent except Antarctica (where seagrass has yet to be found).

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