The Science Exchange Interns

Dakota Reynolds was a Marine Biology major at Florida International University, Miami. Her project titled Tourism pressure on Green Sea Turtles in Akumal Bay…

Samantha Dubbelde, from University of Miami, partnered with Dakota at Akumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Her paper Population Structure and Health Assessment…

Aileen Ferrales (top) was a conservation Biology Major at Arizona State University and was our first intern in Oaxaca…Rebecca Fregoso (middle bottom) from San Bernardino Valley College partnered with local Puerto Vallarta biology student Laura Rosario Flores Arechiga…

Jade Lalla studied engineering at University of the West Indies, in Trinidad and Tobago. She worked at the San Pancho Sea turtle Project doing morning nest patrols, evening hatchling releases, and her study was titled, “Beach Profiling and Climate Change Predictions at the Sea Turtle Nesting Beach San Pancho, Nayarit, Mexico.” …

Raquel Babb is a Marine Science major at Eckerd College, and last year she lived at TSE Research Center in Boca de Tomatlan studying whales…

Gelsey Valenzuela (left), born in Mexico, is a Biology Major at Arizona State University lived in Boca de Tomatlan and Sayulita. Her project was The Impact of Artificial Light Pollution on Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches

Jabari Baptiste from Trinidad and Tobago, attended Florida International University and looked at sargassum and sand temperatures at Akumal, Quintana Roo Mexico…

Isabela Ramos also attended Florida International University and received the National Save the Sea Turtles scholarship to study sargassum accumulation at Akumal, Quintana Roo Mexico…

Jabari Baptiste from Trinidad and Tobago, attended Florida International University and received the National Save the Sea Turtles scholarship to work at Akumal, Quintana Roo Mexico…

Alessandro Gorini (far right) was a masters student at University of Milano Bicocca, Italy. He spent 3 months in Colola, Mexico, the “Black Turtle Capital of the World” …

Chiara “Ena” Haddenhorst (left) was a biology major from on the University of Bremen, Germany. She worked in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with whale researchers…

Colton Dillon and Sophie Reid performed simultaneous collection of sand temperatures and distance to the tide at San Pancho and Mayto beaches in Mexico…

Rose Pollard (above) studied whales and Rachel French (below) did her masters project with whale sharks…

Trinity Niko was a biology and English major at the University of Hawaii Manoa…

Marek Bering, our first intern from Germany and a vet student studied mammal phisiology…

At Akumal, Roxy was joined by Stephanie Pentiuk (far right) and Joshua Simmonds (middle), masters students at RMSAS, University of Miami.

Cora McClelland (right) majored in Wildlife Studies at the University of California…

Ellery’s research project was to test the ocean and river in San Pancho…

Jack Drummond (left) and Tristan Richardson (right) worked at Mayto…

Diana Rubi Huerta, a Mexican veteranarian, did her research at Boca de Tomates…

Patricio Madrigal Luna (left) from Mexico and Alexander Bingham Fortner (right) from San Diego completed their internships at Mayto…

Emer Creedon (upper right),  Allison Carothers (left) and Emma Urofsky (below) worked in San Pancho…

Shelli Hendricks (left) was a Ph.D. candidate from CA and Kelly Scammon (right) from Rhode Island snorkeled 18 fish ID transects…

Justine Thompson chose the Bahamas for her research site…

Team Bahamas includes: Ryley Parent, Laura Thorton, and Liberty Boyd who studied green turtle habitat…

Elizabeth Kocek started out as an intern in San Diego while finishing her masters program….

Jourdan Thomas, a dual major in fisheries and wildlife and forestry at the University of Missouri…

Megan Malone majored in public health at SDSU and received the MHIRT grant…

Regina Valentino (left) and Sara Amour (right) sampled ocean water for E.Coli…

Beth Whitman (second from left) was an intern for the Science Exchange in San Diego….

Juan David Roulliard was an Environmental Science major at Westminster College…

Makenna Martin (Bio major, UC Santa Cruz) partnered with Cori Cramer…

Alyssa Giffin (Australian national attending Hawaii Pacific University as a Marine Biology major), Kristen Zemaitis (Bio Major, Grand State University), and Lizette Guzman-Zaragoza…

Gabriela Ponce, a Biology major at SDSU was supported by the MHIRT grant from National Institute of Health…

Kim Valma was a Biology major at SDSU and was also supported by the MHIRT…

Julia Ramos (far right) is a Biology and Women’s Studies major at Chapel Hill University. She was in Costa Rica doing the first NOAA protocol plastics survey…

Karen Collins was our first Mexican intern and highschool intern. She is the daughter of a fisherman in Baja California Sur…

Nicole Gabriel, a psychology major, worked in Quintana Roo, Mexico where she monitored sea turtle nesting activity at night, protecting…

Monica Rosquillas, an International Security and Conflict Resolution major, worked in Quintana Roo, Mexcio. Monica monitored sea turtle nesting activity…

Daniel Soares (far right) graduated from SDSU with an Environmental Science major. His internship involved taking slope and sand grain profiles to try…