A Diverse Approach to Marine Biodiversity: One Student’s Perspective on IGERT Graduate Training

Kate Hanson

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Marine Biodiversity: Understanding Threats &

Providing Solutions

http://cmbc.ucsd.edu/igert/

Our Goals

• Communication

• Fluency

• Collaboration

• Careers

An Ecological & Economic Baseline for the Revillagigedo Archipelago Biosphere

Reserve, Mexico

Ecology Economics Education

Our Goals• Communication !• Fluency !• Collaboration !

• Interdisciplinary Scientific Careers ?– “The Process”– Multiple Paths, Various Goals?– Work in Progress

Multiple Paths, Various Goals?

Sheila Katevs.

Work in Progress

1) Transparency

2) Ownership

3) Flexibility

4) And most of all……… INTERACTION!

AcknowledgmentsSupport:• CMBC• Dr. James Leichter• Team IGERT

Funding:• UC Mexus

• Nautilus Explorer

• Pacific Rim Foundation

• Earth Friends

• NSF IGERT

• PADI

khanson@ucsd.edu

“Team R”SIO: Dr. Enric Sala, Celli Hull,

Octavio Aburto, Jason Murray, Melissa Roth, Kristen Marhaver, Katie Cramer, Maria Damon, Sheila Walsh, Rich Walsh, Dr. Stuart Sandin, Fiona Nash

UABCS: Dr. Carlos A. Sánchez-Ortiz , Yuliana Rocio Bedolla-Guzmán