Always Exploring..

Hey guys! I know it’s been a while since we last spoke, but I come with good news! The last time we spoke, a few things have happened. For starters, I graduated from undergrad !!! And I am now in a graduate program at The City College of New York. My area of interest is now in Coastal resilience and my major is Earth and Atmospheric Science (EAS). My project focuses on the coral-algal community and how using remote sensing can relate bleaching events to heat stress. My first two semesters of grad school are officially done, and I have one more year and a thesis to get through before I head into a PhD program.

While in my last semester, I applied to both Nautlius and Okeanos Explorer, explorer in training programs, and I got accepted to both! While both opportunities are once in a lifetime and amazing in their way, the cruise that I went on (and am currently on) is the Okeanos Explorer mapping cruise. Okeanos Explorer is the only federally funded program with exploration as its core mission. It is also a part of a global initiative to have the whole ocean mapped by 2030, as outlined The Nippon Foundation- GEBCO Seabed 2030 project. This project was created mainly for the reason that more than 80 percent of our ocean is unmapped, unobserved and unexplored. The mapping cruise I am on is expedition 3 of 2019 Leg 1. We left port on the 30th of May in Key West, Florida, and will be arriving in Port Canaveral, Florida, on June 14th.

I’m so sorry for ghosting you guys for a year! However, this year and forward will be different since I will be posting a blog post at. LEAST ONCE A WEEK.

P.S. Stay tuned for multiple blogs on the Okeanos Explorer Experience, being at sea, what I’ve learned, and much more!!!!