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My Research and Work (Transcript)
My first endeavor into Marine Research was sea turtle biology. As an undergraduate, I was lucky enough to get a small NSF grant to join a group of researchers in Costa Rica and study the mass nesting behavior of Olive Ridley sea turtles. My next step was to do my own graduate work at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary where I dove down on scuba and captured large logger head sea turtles with a net and brought them back up to the surface and attached radio and satellite transmitters to their carapace. We were able to obtain a lot of information about their movement in and around the sanctuary.
During the upcoming mission on the NOAA ship Ron Brown; we will be conducting ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) surveys using the Sonsub Innovator ROV looking at some of the topographical features in the northwest Gulf of Mexico.
I find it really hard to differentiate between my hobbies and my job because my life really is my job. My hobbies are marine biology, underwater video and photography, and underwater exploration.
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