General blog

by Ashley ClarkIn January 2026, I recently completed the year-long Sea Grant John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program assigned to NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Office of International Activities (OAR/IA). There, I served as the lead on NOAA Sea ...

by Brianna LawIn the historic city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, long known as the crossroads of cultures, I found myself at a different kind of crossroads: the future of the world’s wildlife. In one of the world’s oldest cities, thousands of ...

by Emily YoungAs a deep-sea ecologist, my research life revolved around the intricate details of tiny worms dwelling in the darkest corners of the ocean. My grad school years were spent immersed in research, teaching, and science communication, but one ...

by Sarah Tucker It's 11 am on a sunny, but chilly, June morning off the coast of Nome, Alaska. Hundreds of small pieces of broken and melting sea ice are sprinkled across the dark gray waves as far as the ...

by Cuong Tran On August 8, 2023, the worst imaginable happened. Deadly wildfires fueled by hurricane-force winds engulfed historic Lahaina and Kula on the island of Maui. Thousands of people displaced, hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed, and many lives ...

by Gina Selig As a Knauss Fellow at the National Science Foundation, I served as a U.S. Delegate to the 45th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) as part of the United States Delegation. The meeting, organized by the Ministry for ...

by Mariana Rocha de SouzaFor me, growing up in a small town in Brazil, the idea of working for the U.S. federal government in DC seemed far-fetched. But as the first person in my family to learn multiple languages, apply ...

by Paolo Marra-Biggs (He/Him)The ocean is a wondrous place, where body forms are not as confined as they are on land. The ocean’s dense medium creates a relative weightlessness and gives animals the freedom in a three-dimensional space to evolve ...

by Frankki Ramirez Like most other broke college kids, I work a part time job in between my studies. I have been working as a server for a little over a year and typically interact with visitors from out-of-state throughout ...

by Mariana Rocha de Souza Sharm El Sheikh, in Egypt, the host city for COP27 sits on the edge of the Sinai Peninsula, surrounded by amazing coral reefs and red mountains. In the shadows of these mountains, the United Nations ...