{"id":10270,"date":"2020-11-20T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=10270"},"modified":"2020-11-20T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T22:12:20","slug":"weiss-lena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2020\/11\/20\/weiss-lena\/","title":{"rendered":"Weiss, Lena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10324 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Lena-Weiss-Full.png\" alt=\"Lena Weiss\" width=\"484\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Lena-Weiss-Full.png 484w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Lena-Weiss-Full-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Lena-Weiss-Full-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Lena-Weiss-Full-364x364.png 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/>Program:<\/strong> M.A.M.A., graduated 2015<br \/>\n<strong>Current Position:<\/strong> Fisheries Specialist, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life, New England Aquarium<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong> After graduating from Marine Affairs, Lena worked as a marine ecologist and scientific diver for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the southeast. At the EPA, Lena focused on regulating large-scale infrastructure projects and monitoring offshore ecosystem health, including coral reef condition, water quality, and sediment contamination. Inspired by the time she spent as a volunteer diver at the Georgia Aquarium, Lena joined the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium as a Fisheries Specialist in 2019. In her current position, Lena works to protect the world&#8217;s ocean resources by raising public awareness and working with the seafood industry, governments, and other NGOs to advance sustainable practices within wild capture fisheries and aquaculture operations. Current focuses include: bycatch reduction in wild capture fisheries, improving practices in wild-harvest seaweed operations, and working with the bluetech sector to develop innovative solutions to critical issues facing the ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How has your participation in the Marine Affairs Program helped to influence or shape your career? <\/strong>This is said all the time &#8211; but once you start looking around, you start to see how many MAF graduates are working in the ocean science\/policy sphere (we are EVERYWHERE). Having an instant, massive, professional network and connection with people is incredible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the most memorable\u2013or the most influential\u2013course taken as a Marine Affairs student?<\/strong><br \/>\nShameless plug for the world&#8217;s best thesis advisor, Tracey Dalton \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.A.M.A., 2015, Fisheries Specialist, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life, New England Aquarium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3922,"featured_media":10327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10345,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270\/revisions\/10345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}