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Shannon Burns awarded prestigious John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

The Capitol Building in Washington, DC.

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Written by Kristen Kusek, Former Communications Director for 国产短视频CMS

国产短视频College of Marine Science Ph.D. student, Shannon Burns, is among 86 finalists selected for the highly competitive 2023 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, announced by NOAA and Sea Grant.

This is one of the largest Knauss fellow cohort in recent years, .

鈥淚 am excited to pursue a career navigating politics to further ocean policy, with local stakeholder needs in mind,鈥 said Burns. 鈥淚 hope to use my experience with the Knauss Fellowship to become an effective translator of science.鈥

Burns is a student in the lab of Kristen Buck, Ph.D., where she investigates the feedbacks among phytoplankton communities and the bioavailable trace metal distributions of iron, zinc, manganese, nickel, copper, cobalt, cadmium, and lead.

Shannon Burns on the R/V Hogarth.

Shannon Burns on the R/V Hogarth.

In the press announcement, where you can learn more about how this year鈥檚 application processed differed from previous years and , Jonathan Pennock, Ph.D., National Sea Grant College Program director, said, 鈥淭he Knauss Fellowship offers graduate students the invaluable opportunity to put their academic knowledge to practice in tackling marine, coastal, and Great Lakes management and policy challenges at the federal level. We look forward to welcoming the 2023 class of Knauss fellows and seeing how they will apply their unique insights to developing solutions to some of the most important challenges facing the country.鈥

The fellowships begin in February 2023.

Congratulations, Shannon!

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