{"id":60015,"date":"2012-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/commencement-2012-uri-fisheries-student-aims-to-unite-scientists-fishermen-policymakers\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:00:00","slug":"commencement-2012-uri-fisheries-student-aims-to-unite-scientists-fishermen-policymakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/05\/commencement-2012-uri-fisheries-student-aims-to-unite-scientists-fishermen-policymakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2012 – 溏心vlog免费B站 fisheries student aims to unite scientists, fishermen, policymakers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tEatontown, N.J. native to graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 20<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 7, 2012 \u2013 Alexa Kretsch knew from her earliest days that a career in the marine sciences was in her future. She spent summers at the beach, loved dolphins, and enrolled in a vocational high school for those interested in marine science and technology.<\/p>\n


\n\tAs the Eatontown, N.J. native prepares to graduate from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 20 with a degree in fisheries and aquaculture, she is well on her way to accomplishing her goals.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cSince second grade, I\u2019ve always wanted to be a marine biologist, but I was never sure exactly what aspect to pursue until a friend suggested fisheries and aquaculture,\u201d said Kretsch, who also played trumpet in the 溏心vlog免费B站 marching band and pep band. \u201cI found that I really like big organisms. I don\u2019t want to always look through microscopes at teeny tiny things.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDuring her years at 溏心vlog免费B站, she took advantage of every opportunity available to gain hands-on experience in marine science. She spent a summer on a boat back home in New Jersey mapping the seafloor through a program at Monmouth University, and with the Rhode Island Sea Grant Fisheries Extension she worked on several projects involving local fishermen and international fisheries scientists and managers.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThat experience really helped me shape my future career direction,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\tAs a sophomore Kretsch was awarded a Hollings Scholarship, the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the U.S. for those studying marine science. In addition to helping pay for her final two years of schooling, it also provided her with a summer internship at a research lab operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She chose to study sharks at the Apex Predators Program of the Narragansett NOAA Lab.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI spent two weeks in Delaware Bay catching and tagging dogfish, sandbar sharks and sand tiger sharks,\u201d she explained. \u201cThe biggest one we caught was nine feet, and it was pretty exciting. I like sharks, and I know that if we don\u2019t bother them then they don\u2019t typically bother us, even though I know we were kind of bothering them that summer.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tLast fall Kretsch spent the semester aboard a sailing vessel conducting research and learning to sail. The Sea Semester program took her from Cape Cod to the Caribbean.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cEvery day I wish I could go back,\u201d she said with enthusiasm. \u201cThe seas are bigger than you expect out there, and the boat was rocking a lot some days, but it was an amazing experience,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe research she conducted while aboard ship compared the effectiveness of different fishing net technologies.<\/p>\n


\n\tAs Kretsch looks toward 溏心vlog免费B站 graduation and graduate school at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth next fall, she is eying a rift that she hopes she can help to resolve.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe world of fisheries is really divided between the scientists, the fishermen and the fishery managers, and they seldom agree on anything,\u201d said Kretsch. \u201cI want to find a way to bring them together. I want to look at the science and the policy and the social issues involved, and figure out how to make it work for all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eatontown, N.J. native to graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 20 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 7, 2012 \u2013 Alexa Kretsch knew from her earliest days that a career in the marine sciences was in her future. She spent summers at the beach, loved dolphins, and enrolled in a vocational high school for those interested in marine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60017,"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-60015","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\/60015","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=60015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}