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MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT
Jacklyn
James
To this day, the
United States has been my home for 23 years. My
upbringing has afforded the tools enabling the transformation of a bird
ready to explore a world beyond the world I live in today. Ever since
I was a little girl I have gone to the beach. I can remember spending
hours searching through tidepools and sticking my fingers in sea anemones.
I always looked forward to seeing the porpoise swim by every summer and
taking trips to Sea World to see large marine mammals in captivity. So
by my freshman year in high school I had decided that I wanted to be an
Marine Biologist.
The ocean and its contents are very important and I am very optimistic
about studying them. Marine biology contributes to human society in many
ways. Humans are very dependant on aquatic resources and the marine environment.
All food, water, building and other materials, and medicines come from
natural ecosystems around us. Many of these resources are found directly
in the ocean: food, chemicals from plants and animals for medicine and
other products, oxygen and other nutrients. The ocean provides a place
for me to explore a world within a world vital to the survival of human
life. There is a lot that is not understood about marine life and ecosystems,
and yet society relies on what we do know all the time to make decisions
about ocean dumping and pollution, fishing, aquaculture and recreation.
I am currently majoring in Marine Environmental Science with a concentration
in Biology and a minor in Remote Sensing. My goals for the future involve
graduate school at one of the top ten colleges studying the world's oceans.
Upon completion of graduate school I would like to be an marine biologist.
With a deeper, science-based understanding of ocean organisms and ecosystems,
I plan to contribute to society by keeping our waters free from pollution
and developing ways that humans and animals can all live sustainably in
our marine environment.
