SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Dr. Francisco San Juan

Dr. Kathleen Fischer

Mrs. Elizabeth Noble

Research Assistants

Jacklyn James

Shanna Chambliss

Links

Research

SAV's

ECSU

Geosciences

www.noaa.gov

www.ncnerr.org

dcm2.ehnr.state.nc.us

www.enr.state.nc.us

www.usgs.gov

www.frf.usace.army.mil

www.ncfisheries.net

cerser.ecsu.edu

nia.ecsu.edu
 
 

Jacklyn James

Resume

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.