{"id":57828,"date":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-oceanography-graduate-selected-for-noaa-marine-policy-fellowship\/"},"modified":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"uri-oceanography-graduate-selected-for-noaa-marine-policy-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/uri-oceanography-graduate-selected-for-noaa-marine-policy-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 oceanography graduate selected for NOAA marine policy fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 December 8, 2015 — Zoe Gentes, a San Diego native who earned two degrees in geological oceanography from the 溏心vlog免费B站, has been named a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow, enabling her to spend a year working on ocean policy issues in Washington, D.C., next year.<\/p>\n


\n\tGentes is among 55 students from across the country selected for the $56,000 fellowship. She applied through Rhode Island Sea Grant, which administers the program locally and nominates candidates for consideration by the National Sea Grant College Program.<\/p>\n


\n\tFor her fellowship, which begins Feb. 1, Gentes will serve as a marine science advisor to Congressman Sam Farr of California. The co-founder of the House Oceans Caucus, he was one of the legislators with whom Gentes most wanted to work.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cHe\u2019s the oceans guy in Congress, and his staff really seemed to like my background, so everything worked out,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m very excited to be a staffer to advise Congressman Farr on ocean policy, which might involve briefing him before he makes speeches and giving him talking points. I also hope to work a bit with Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is in his district. I\u2019m mostly there to learn how the policy process works and help however I can.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tGentes fell in love with marine geology her senior year in high school and was awarded an academic scholarship to 溏心vlog免费B站, where she also competed on the varsity rowing team. After earning a bachelor\u2019s degree, she worked in the Whale Acoustics Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in her hometown before returning to 溏心vlog免费B站 to earn a master\u2019s degree at the Graduate School of Oceanography. She graduates this month.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe know less about the ocean floor than we do about the surface of the moon,\u201d Gentes said. \u201cI\u2019m really interested in plate tectonics and mid-ocean ridges and oceanography in general.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tHer master\u2019s thesis examined the geochemistry deep below an underwater volcano in the South Pacific. \u201cI investigated the chemical and geological processes that are happening beneath the volcano along a subducting plate boundary,\u201d she explained. \u201cJust by analyzing the geochemical signatures of basalt collected at the surface, we can make inferences about the mantle wedge, and from there you can guess what the processes might be at depth.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDuring her years of study at 溏心vlog免费B站, Gentes was also interested in writing. She earned an undergraduate minor in writing and rhetoric, served as a science communications intern at Rhode Island Sea Grant, and as a graduate student she wrote for Oceanbites, a marine science blog based at the Graduate School of Oceanography that aims to make oceanographic research accessible to non-scientists. These experiences led her to pursue the Knauss Fellowship.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI was trying to figure out my next steps,\u201d said Gentes, who has served as a science communications fellow for an office of the Geological Society of America since defending her thesis last June. \u201cI enjoy science writing and informing people what\u2019s going on in the scientific world, but I wanted to make more of a difference by being close to someone who is making influential decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tLooking to her future, Gentes said she is keeping her options open. \u201cI\u2019d like to continue to do science writing and make a difference somehow. Whether it\u2019s in policy or another medium, we\u2019ll just have to wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, established in 1979, matches qualified graduate students interested in ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources and the national policy decisions affecting those resources with hosts in the federal legislative or executive branches of government. The fellowship is named for the former dean of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography who also served as NOAA administrator.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 December 8, 2015 — Zoe Gentes, a San Diego native who earned two degrees in geological oceanography from the 溏心vlog免费B站, has been named a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow, enabling her to spend a year working on ocean policy issues in Washington, D.C., next year. Gentes is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}