Dispatches E-News: Eric D’Asaro, Joe Montoya & Rita Colwell (05/02/18)

VIDEO OF THE WEEK Eric D’Asaro: I Didn’t Follow in My Father’s Footsteps Dr. Eric D’Asaro (University of Washington) served as the chief scientist during a 31-day research mission to study how the oil spreads out via ocean currents. He shares his thoughts on choosing the environmental sciences as a career, dispels the myth of…
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Dispatches from the Gulf – Special Screenings – E-News (04/18/18)

Join Us This Week for Two Special Screenings of Dispatches From The Gulf – 2 University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science Thursday, April 19 @ 6:00 pm Join RECOVER and CARTHE for a screening and panel discussion with some of the scientists in the film. In honor of the anniversary of…
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Dispatches E-News: Sidetracked, More Sharks & Balikpapan (04/11/18)

VIDEO OF THE WEEK Helga Huntley: “Sidetracked” Into Oceanography Helga Huntley is a professor at the University of Delaware. Her background is in mathematics, but while in graduate school she got “sidetracked” in oceanography. Her current focus is atmospheric ocean science and the study of currents. She was lured out of the lab by CARTHE’s…
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Dispatches E-News: Valdez, Craft & Fauna (04/04/18)

VIDEO OF THE WEEK Lessons From The Past: The 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill In 1989, 11 million gallons of crude leaked from the Exxon Valdez oil tanker into Prince William Sound in Alaska, devastating everything in its path and causing fishery collapses in the years that followed. Based on historical evidence such as this,…
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Dispatches E-News: Encouragement for Future Scientists, Saving the Wetlands & Grad Student Shelby Ziegler (03/22/18)

VIDEO OF THE WEEK Encouraging Women in Science Professor Samantha “Mandy” Joye (University of Georgia) shares how her personal journey to becoming a scientist—from a childhood passion for the ocean to the decision to forgo medical school for a Ph.D. program despite the absence of female faculty—has inspired her to encourage young women in the…
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