2022-2024 EPP/MSI undergraduate scholars

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Martin Gonzalez

School: University of California-Santa Cruz
Major: Marine Biology
 
Summer 1
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington
Project Title: What cephalopods do we see in the California Current? Tracking species presence/absence patterns and abundance through time.
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Milford Laboratory
Project Title: Growth rates of Atlantic surfclams
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 Richarde Graham, II
School: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Major: Atmospheric Science
 
Summer 1
Office: National Weather Service, Weather Forecast Office, Gray, Maine
Project Title: Improving the prediction of snow to liquid ratios in New England.
 
Summer 2
Office: National Weather Service, Weather Forecast Office, Peachtree City Georgia
Project Title: Measures and effective messaging of heat risk for adolescent athletics.
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Ingrid Martinson
School: California State University, Monterey Bay
Major: Marine Science
 
Summer 1
Office: National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Service, Charleston, South Carolina
Project Title: Assessing impacts of chemical spills in coastal areas.
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Protected Resources Division, West Coast Region
Project Title: Evaluating success of experimental bull kelp restoration trials.
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Kiah Matthews
School: Nova Southeastern University
Major: Marine Biology
 
Summer 1
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Project Title: Evaluating suitability of satellite imagery to monitor living shorelines.
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Office of Protected Resources
Project Title: Evaluating the Taiwanese humpback dolphin species status for the ESA.
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Alison Novara
School: Nova Southeastern University
Major: Marine Biology
 
Summer 1
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Milford, Connecticut
Project Title: Response of bay scallops to ocean acidification.
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Research, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Project Title: Modeled climate change impacts on marine calcifier habitats: Environmental shifts and extremes
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Hailey Poole
School: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Major: Atmospheric Science
 
Summer 1
Office: National Weather Service, Weather Forecast Office, Gray, Maine
Project Title: Improving the prediction of freezing rain in New England.
 
Summer 2
Office: National Weather Service, Weather Forecast Office, Morehead City, North Carolina
Project Title: Identifying an environment for pulse severe thunderstorms in eastern North Carolina.
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Spencer Sakuma
School: Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Major: Environmental Science
 
Summer 1
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands Science Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Project Title: An analysis of fishery observation data to develop strategies to improve engagement and communication with small boat fishing communities across Hawaiʻi.
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Research, National College Sea Grant Program
Project Title: Increasing engagement for careers in aquaculture.
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Christian Schnell
School: University of the Incarnate Word
Major: Meteorology
 
Summer 1
Office: NOAA Satellites, Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, Maryland
Project Title: Numerical weather prediction connections to NOAA's Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO).
 
Summer 2
Office: National Weather Service, Weather Forecast Office, Springfield, Missouri
Project Title: A comparison of environments for severe and non-severe pulse thunderstorms across the Missouri Ozarks.
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Alexandria Tennant
School: Savannah State University
Major: Marine Science
 
Summer 1
Office: NOAA Satellites, National Centers for Environmental Information, Reno, Nevada
Project Title: Heat health assessment.
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Fisheries Science Center
Project Title: Spatiotemporal occurrence of Rice’s whales at two different sites in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico using passive acoustics.
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Tatyana Villela
School: California State University, Monterey Bay
Major: Marine Science
 
Summer 1
Office: NOAA Research, Louisiana Sea Grant, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Project Title: Understanding the impacts of environmental changes to the United Houma Nation.
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Protected Resources Division, West Coast Region
Project Title: Advancing abalone conservation through development of a scientific research and enhancement permit program. 
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Courtney White
School: Nova Southeastern University
Major: Marine Science
 
Summer 1
Office: NOAA Research, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida
Project Title: Spatial and temporal pattern of water quality in Florida bay.
 
Summer 2
Office: NOAA Fisheries, Auke Bay Laboratories
Project Title: Multi-year temporally resolved analysis of persistent organic pollutant exposure as recorded in whale baleen.
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Michaela Wong
School: University of Hawaiʻi  at Hilo
Major: Marine Science
 
Summer 1
Office: National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Service (NCCOS), Silver Spring, Maryland
Project Title: Leveraging machine learning and AI to characterize decades of NCCOS National status and trends contaminant data.
 
Summer 2
Office: National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Service, Coastal Resilience, Restoration, and Assessment Branch
Project Title: Integrating technology and imagery into evaluations of coral reef condition.