{"id":183408,"date":"2024-05-13T10:04:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=183408"},"modified":"2024-05-14T11:32:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:32:16","slug":"lauren-decker-m-s-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/public-engagement\/alum-profile\/lauren-decker-m-s-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Decker, M.S. &#8217;09"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/lauren-decker-e1707497822368-1024x575.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"183390\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/lauren-decker-e1707497822368.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?attachment_id=183390\" class=\"wp-image-183390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/lauren-decker-e1707497822368-1024x575.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/lauren-decker-e1707497822368-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/lauren-decker-e1707497822368-768x431.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/lauren-decker-e1707497822368-364x204.jpeg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/lauren-decker-e1707497822368-500x281.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/lauren-decker-e1707497822368-1000x561.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/lauren-decker-e1707497822368.jpeg 1197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Alum Lauren Decker<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/Alaska-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"183410\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/Alaska-copy-2.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?attachment_id=183410\" class=\"wp-image-183410\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Fishing port in Alaska<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/AGSO_F22_DeckerSisters_500X667.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"178802\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/AGSO_F22_DeckerSisters_500X667.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/publications\/aboard-gso\/aides-to-navigation\/attachment\/agso_f22_deckersisters_500x667\/\" class=\"wp-image-178802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/AGSO_F22_DeckerSisters_500X667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/AGSO_F22_DeckerSisters_500X667-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/AGSO_F22_DeckerSisters_500X667-364x486.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Lauren with her sister, Leslie Canavera<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout right  \"><h1>Alum Spotlight<\/h1>\n\n<p>Hometown: Anchorage, AK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current town: Las Vegas, NV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Major Professor: Dave Hebert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research focus: Physical Oceanography<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  block-level prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lbdecker\/\" title=\"\">Connect on linkedin <\/a>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lauren Decker, M.S. \u201909, a Yup\u2019ik Alaska Native, is chief scientific officer for<a href=\"https:\/\/polarcticllc.com\/\"> PolArctic<\/a>, an ocean and data science company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning\u2014informed by Indigenous knowledge\u2014to help businesses in the Arctic operate safely, profitably, and sustainably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m doing exactly what I wanted to do in terms of AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning,\u201d she says. She\u2019s coding new technologies for businesses, governments, and Indigenous communities to help decipher a capricious (and climate-ravaged) Arctic. Read about Lauren in Aboard GSO&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/publications\/aboard-gso\/aides-to-navigation\/\"> <em>Aides to Navigation<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>and URI Magazine&#8217;s, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/fall-2023\/an-ocean-of-data\/\">An Ocean of Data<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Decker, M.S. \u201909, a Yup\u2019ik Alaska Native, is chief scientific officer for PolArctic, an ocean and data science company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning\u2014informed by Indigenous knowledge\u2014to help businesses in the Arctic operate safely, profitably, and sustainably. \u201cI\u2019m doing exactly what I wanted to do in terms of AI (artificial intelligence) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3058],"tags":[3057],"class_list":["post-183408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alum-profile","tag-lauren-decker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184411,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183408\/revisions\/184411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}