In addition, graduate students Elizabeth Hunter and Taylor Lindsay and 溏心vlog免费B站 alumni Dawn Parry and Megan McSweeney received honorable mention.<\/p>\n Guidry, who graduates from Louisiana State University this month, will work with 溏心vlog免费B站 Assistant Professor Jonathan Puritz to study oyster genomics and how oysters respond to multiple environmental stressors, like ocean acidification and sewage effluent.<\/p>\n \u201cI was attracted to these questions because of the implications oysters have for coastal ecosystems and communities,\u201d she said. \u201cGrowing up in southeast Louisiana, where communities are on the front lines of climate change, shaped my interest in coastal environments.\u201d<\/p>\n When she completes her doctoral studies in 2025, she plans to work for a government agency, non-profit or private industry to mitigate the effects of climate change and human impacts on environmental quality, marine invertebrates and fisheries.<\/p>\n Hauer is in her second year as a doctoral student at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography, where she works with Assistant Professor Roxanne Beinart on research examining the symbiotic relationships among organisms living near hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is great about the fellowship is that I\u2019m not tied to the project I proposed,\u201d she said. \u201cAs I continue to learn and grow as a scientist, my ideas and questions continue to evolve, and the fellowship provides intellectual freedom that is not always achievable when funded by other grants.\u201d<\/p>\n Having studied environmental science and graphic art as an undergraduate at DePaul University, she looks forward to a career combining scientific research and conservation with science communication involving nature photography, filmmaking and other innovative artistic methods.<\/p>\n Hayes was thrilled to receive word he had been awarded the fellowship, which he will spend studying chemical engineering at Northeastern University.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a great feeling because I had spent well over 100 hours researching and talking to faculty about the fellowship and then writing, rewriting, and rewriting the proposal over a six-month span,\u201d said Hayes, a Department of State Gilman Scholar who spent last year studying in Spain as part of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s International Engineering Program. \u201cThe fellowship will allow me greater flexibility in picking a research group, and I will be able to be more creative in developing my own research project.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Megan](\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Guidry.jpg\")
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