Join us for our annual Summer Intern Research Symposium this Tuesday evening! Our summer interns have been working on independent projects while assisting our staff with outreach and education at the Blue Ocean Discovery Center and collecting research data from a whale watching boat. Eight summer interns will be presenting thier work this Tuesday evening. Attendance can be in person or virtual. Be sure to sign up to get the Zoom link or directions to the location of the in-person event. Space is limited. Talk topics are below but are not in order of presentation. Please RSVP here.
Ashley Goland, upcoming Junior at Stony Brook University. Hometown: North Andover, MA“Right Whales and Wind Farms”
Eva Anderson, Senior at University of Colorado- Boulder. Hometown: Lakewood, CO“Lobster Gear and Whale Entanglement”
Julia Wilcox, upcoming Junior at University of Richmond. Hometown: Huntington, NY“Ocean sunfish sightings in relation to water depth and sea surface temperature in the Gulf of Maine”
Kaden Ballou, senior at Northwest Missouri State University. Hometown: Belton, MO“Trends in Hampton Beach weekend litter”
Kaela Preston, upcoming Senior at University of Miami. Hometown: Menomonee Falls, WI“Distribution and Occurrence of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Jeffreys Ledge Region of the Gulf of Maine”
Megan Masciola, upcoming Junior at Otterbein University. Hometown: Lewis Center, OH“Creating an optimal habitat for captive sea anemones and lobsters”
Natalia Herb, upcoming sophomore at Palomar Community College. Hometown: Temecula, CA“Ship strikes and methods of prevention”
Neleigh Brown, upcoming senior at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Hometown: Norfolk, NE“Feeding behavior of North Atlantic humpback whales in relation to the lunar cycle”
