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Peer Mentor Program
Nominated for Graduate
Organization of the Year
The OC Graduate Peer Mentorship Program was nominated
for the Student Life Achievement award for Graduate
Organization of the year.
The Peer Mentorship Program (funded by the U.S. Department
of Educational Title V PPOHA grant) is composed of online and
in-house graduate students studying marine biology, marine
environmental sciences, and coastal zone management. The
program’s purpose is to assist new students in social, personal,
and academic acclimation to the Oceanographic Center by
developing positive student engagement. Mentors engage
graduate students in activities that raise environmental
awareness to the public, provide marine research guidance,
facilitate professional opportunities, and diversify the
Oceanographic Center.
OC peer mentors pose with George Hanbury at the 2013 Stueys. From left
are Danielle Sattelberger, M.S. student; Jazmin Letamendi, peer mentor
supervisor; George Hanbury, NSU president; and Beranda Harper and
Kayelyn Simmons, M.S. students.
Alumni News
ASLO Award Named After Alumna and Adjunct Professor Clarice M. Yentsch
The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) held the 2013
Aquatic Science Meeting February 17–22 in New Orleans, Louisiana. ASLO inaugurated the Early
Career Award to honor an individual (within 12 years of receiving their terminal degree) who
has shown across-the-board balanced excellence in research, science-training, and broader
societal issues (such as resource management, conservation, policy, or public education). The
Yentsch-Schindler Early Career Award is being named for
Clarice M. Yentsch
, Ph.D., an NSU
oceanography graduate and adjunct professor at the OC, and David Schindler, a limnology
professor at the University of Alberta. Yentsch was one of the first 17 graduates of NSU.
Clarice M Yentsch, Ph.D., is shown at
the OC in the 1970s.
Alumnus Selected as Embassy Science Fellow
Robert Brock
(M.S. marine biology ’91) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) National Marine Protected Areas Center has recently been
selected by the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal, as a 2013 Embassy Science Fellow (ESF).
Brock will be working with the Universidade dos Açores/Departamento de Oceanografia
e Pescas
developing appropriate ecological indicators and questions
to assess Portugal’s marine protected areas (MPAs), as well as foreseeing potential future
uses of this approach. Brock also will work with the government of Portugal’s Instituto
Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera
delivering seminars synthesizing
and disseminating science to nontechnical audiences during his detail.
Begun as a partnership between the U.S. Department of State and National Science
Foundation in 2001, the ESF provides a valuable mechanism for employees of the U.S.
Government to advance national scientific priorities through international collaboration.
As a result, science fellows foster new institutional linkages and assist the U.S.
government in fulfilling its international scientific goals and responsibilities.
Robert Brock in Portugal
