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Emma Hickerson Profile (Transcript)
My official title is Research Coordinator at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.
I was born and raised in one of the most picturesque, oceanside cities in the world, Sydney, Australia. Because of this, the ocean has just been instilled in me. I probably consider myself a late bloomer as far as wanting to get into marine biology. It was more a matter of course as I went through undergraduate school. I knew I wanted to do something in Marine Biology but I didn’t know in what sense I was going to get into it. The turning point really was when I went to Costa Rica and did field work on an arribada beach on Olive Ridley sea turtles. I knew at that time then that I wanted to do field work rather than be teaching.
Probably the first really fascinating moment was to see thousands upon thousands of female Olive Ridley sea turtles climbing their way to the beach just a kilometer long down in Costa Rica, in one evening and then watching the whole process of this population of animals laying their eggs, crawling back into the ocean and then seeing this beach that just looked like it had been turned up by bulldozers the next morning.
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