{"id":64639,"date":"2009-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/manalapan-n-j-resident-to-graduate-from-uri-as-top-aquaculture-student\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T00:00:00","slug":"manalapan-n-j-resident-to-graduate-from-uri-as-top-aquaculture-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/05\/manalapan-n-j-resident-to-graduate-from-uri-as-top-aquaculture-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Manalapan, N.J. resident to graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 as top aquaculture student"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tCareer in aquatic medicine on the horizon<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 4, 2009 \u2013 When Lauren Korecky enrolled at the 溏心vlog免费B站, she knew she wanted to ride horses and study marine biology. But as she looks toward graduation on May 17 as the University\u2019s top aquaculture student, she had no idea that a career in aquatic medicine was in her future.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhen the Manalapan, N.J. resident took an elective course in aquaculture as a sophomore, she was immediately intrigued by the discipline.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI fell in love with the topic material and the professors, and there was no going back,\u201d Korecky said. \u201cI just loved the professors and their passion about aquaculture, so they made it easy and interesting to learn. And they had traveled everywhere, so it was exciting hearing where they had been.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tShe was awarded a Coastal Fellowship to work on a research project with her favorite professor, Marta Gomez-Chiarri, to learn about lab work and get a taste for what her career might be.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe did a challenge with oysters, experimentally infecting them with a parasite and comparing them to uninfected oysters,\u201d Korecky said. \u201cWe were looking for the activity of a specific protein to see if it positively affects their immune response. Does this protein help them fight off the parasite, and if it does, can you breed oysters with more of that protein so they don\u2019t get sick in farms?\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAs a junior she took a graduate level course on the diseases of aquatic organisms, which launched her on a career path that will include enrolling in veterinary school.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cVet school for aquatic organisms is a new sort of thing, but it\u2019s on the rise because of the growth of the aquaculture industry,\u201d said Korecky. \u201cThey need medical personnel who can travel from farm to farm to monitor the animals and analyze what might be wrong. Unlike a vet at an aquarium, which only has a few individuals of any one species, aquaculture facilities can have 300,000 fish, so if you don\u2019t identify the problem quickly you could lose them all.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWhile pursuing her undergraduate studies, the 溏心vlog免费B站 student took advantage of numerous opportunities to expand her horizons. She participated in SEA Semester, which she described as \u201ceasily one of the best experiences of my life,\u201d during which she spent six weeks on land studying oceanography and how to operate a sailing vessel, and six weeks sailing from Massachusetts to Trinidad and back.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWhile onboard, we were totally in charge of sailing the boat, and we had to do an oceanography research project while we were out there,\u201d she explained. \u201cI did a project on zooplankton in the surface waters, surveying any and all the plankton we could find and trying to figure out if there is more at night or during the day, in warm waters versus cold, and in areas where there was a current or no current. It was a very broad project, and a lot of our hypotheses actually happened.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tKorecky also spent a month in Costa Rica studying the diversity of mammals that live on coffee plantations. She trapped forest mice, opossums, tropical bats and other animals to compare the numbers and variety of species found in shade-grown coffee plantations with those found in traditional coffee plantations.<\/p>\n


\n\tThroughout her college education, Korecky also competed on the 溏心vlog免费B站 equestrian team, where she entered 10 horse shows each year to accumulate points. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt was a nice team bonding experience,\u201d she said. \u201cHorseback riding here is very different from my experience outside of school. It\u2019s a very different type of riding that took some getting used to, but by the end of my freshman year I got into it, and by my senior year I reached the highest division and went to the first round of finals.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tFollowing graduation, Korecky will spend the summer as an intern at New England Aquarium in Boston to get her first real-world experience with aquatic medicine. Then she plans to enroll at Rutgers University to earn a master\u2019s degree in pathology as preparation for veterinary school. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cEventually I expect to be working with universities and aquaculture farms somewhere along the coast or near a large lake system or river,\u201d she said. \u201cI could even end up in Asia, where aquaculture is really big. It doesn\u2019t matter to me whether I\u2019m working with finfish or shellfish; I want to do it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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