Kathleen Beck (staff)

Kathy Beck has worked at GSO for 23 years. During her time at GSO she has worked for 4 Deans and 3 Interim Deans as the GSO Dean’s Executive Assistant and also worked with 3 Associate Deans. She worked in the Fish Building, helped move the Dean’s office to OSEC and continued on. Read her reflections about her work and the Bay Campus community and learn about her retirement plans.

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Lora Harris (alum)

Lora Harris (Ph.D. 2006) did research to use chemicals of human origin, like artificial sweeteners and soaps as “fingerprints” to help determine if discharge from septic tank systems are polluting nearby watersheds. “In combination with isotopic tracers, this could help differentiate wastewater from agricultural sources, which would be useful” said Harris.

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Carin Ashjin (alum)

Woods Hole Institution oceanographer Carin Ashjin (Ph.D.1991) spent 4.5 months in the Arctic as part of the MOSAiC expedition and then returned to a pandemic altered world. “I reflect on how what I thought would be surreal (working on a ship frozen into the ice in the middle of the Arctic Ocean) is now normal, and the world that I left behind is the one that is surreal”.

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Christopher Reddy (alum)

Chris Reddy, (Ph.D. 1998), offers his perspective on the Indian Ocean oil spill. Chris says” I’m a scientist who has studied oil spills all over the world for more than three decades, including the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. I’ve learned that the way an oil spill unfolds is not always simple or straightforward, and the worst-case scenario isn’t a fait accompli.”

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Yackar Mauzole (alum)

Yackar Mauzole (M.S. 2014, Ph.D. 2017), discusses what being an oceanographer is like during COVID times, conducting research from your laptop. Growing up in Paris, France she thought “I’d likely become a scientist, as I love solving problems and challenging my mind.” Now she is an oceanographer specializing in satellite oceanography and ocean fronts.

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Student-Alum Networking Seminar – James Maughan – “How GSO Research led to Environmental Consulting which led to a Multifaceted Environmental Advocacy, Academic, and Policy Career”

Alum James Maughan talks about his research at MERL and how it led to his career.

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