Project Oceanography Position: Executive Producer
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University of South Florida, College of Marine Science
My major responsibility is to plan the program schedule and be sure that broadcasts and teacher packets are the best they can possibly be. I work closely with the Project Oceanography staff, the production team, and the science hosts to make the whole program work smoothly. A big part of my job is to help the science host design their programs to be both understandable and interesting to middle school students. I also teach some Project Oceanography segments, about my own research and sometimes as a substitute for scheduled hosts.
I have a dgree in Biology/Geology from Mt. Holyoke College, a women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and a Master's Degree in Marine Studies from the University of Delaware. After completing my master's thesis, I worked at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences for seven years. This was an important part of my training and education because I got to participate in research cruises and learn how to write papers and proposals. In 1983, I enrolled in the M.I.T. and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography, and completed my degree in Chemical Oceanography. The next three years were spent as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Washington College of Ocean and Fisheries Science.
What I like best about my job is that it is really so many different jobs. I get to learn about lots of research that is outside of my field by talking to scientists from all over the country, and I allso get ot learn about th elatest broadcast technologies. It's also exciting to work with the students and teachers who participate in Project Oceanography. The challenges and rewards seem endless!
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