November 7, 2008
Biology Grad Student Megan Wood Awarded Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship for 2009
Biology graduate student Megan Wood has been awarded a Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship for 2009.
Her master's thesis research, the reproduction and dispersal of sea stars and mussels among coastal sites in Northern California, is supported by her Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowship, another very prestigious fellowship award.
Part of the work for Wood’s thesis is to help inform of protected marine area placements now underway as part of California's Marine Life Protection Act Initiative process.
The Marine Policy Fellowship provides "a unique educational experience to students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources."
The program matches highly qualified graduate students with "hosts" in the legislative and executive branch of government located in the Washington, D.C. area, for a one year paid fellowship.
Over the last three years the awardees of Knauss Fellows were chosen from esteemed universities such as Yale, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, University of Washington, Duke, Stanford, Cornell, Columbia and University of Southern California.
Posted by wasp at November 7, 2008 3:36 PM