{"id":2658,"date":"2014-07-31T15:05:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:16:11","slug":"kait-frasier-gomri-scholar-d32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/kait-frasier-gomri-scholar-d32\/","title":{"rendered":"Kait Frasier, GoMRI Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grad Student Frasier is Learning What Dolphins Can Tell Us<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Kait Frasier listens to Gulf marine mammals to estimate how many there are and find out if their numbers are changing after the\u00a0Deepwater Horizon\u00a0<\/em>oil spill. Kait sees dolphins as a good species to study because \u201ceveryone can see and understand them, not just scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kait, a Ph.D. student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California \u2013 San Diego, is a\u00a0GoMRI Scholar<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0C-IMAGE<\/a>. She shares her journey, work, and hopes for the future.<\/p>\n

Her Path<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kait\u2019s journey into dolphin research came as a pleasant surprise. Despite initially wanting to study deep sea worms, she interned with Dr. John Hildebrand in the underwater bioacoustics lab, using sound to locate whales and dolphins. Being a Biology major, she felt \u201cthis was way over my head,\u201d but needing a job, she stuck with it. She thought that working with dolphins would be \u201ca touchy-feely sort of science.\u201d However, Kait soon discovered that the science was surprisingly heavily rooted in physics, math, and computing; so, she took more classes and learned programming.<\/p>\n

\"On<\/a><\/p>\n

(Click to enlarge) On NOAA\u2019s R\/V Gordon Gunter, in the Gulf of Mexico, Kait Frasier dons a survival suit (referred to as a \u201cGumby Suit\u201d). Researchers have to be able to get into it in under a minute, which takes some practice. (Photo provided by Frasier)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As her role evolved, Kait entered a Ph.D. program in marine mammal bioacoustics, something she \u201chadn\u2019t even known was \u2018a thing\u2019 up until that point\u201d and that \u201cpeople only do in their dreams.\u201d Not so bad. With this new focus, Kait said that \u201cthe combination of the insane beauty of the ocean and the challenges of the research\u201d drew her into the field.<\/p>\n

You can read Kait”s full interview here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/gulfresearchinitiative.org\/grad-student-frasier-learning-dolphins-can-tell-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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