![]() How did she get such a cool job? Going to college is the first step. She also gets to travel to a lot of cool places, learn new things from a variety of topics, and her job is often an adventure. She listens to their problems and ideas and then looks for the important questions to address all of those viewpoints. What does she like the best about her job? She gets to work with a variety of people ranging from scientists and fisheries managers to fishermen and even teachers like me. Pollock is her species of choice and she is looking at the success rate of Age 0 (zero) pollock surviving their first year to become Age 1 pollock as a prediction of the future health of the commercial pollock fishery. candidate and is doing her research and dissertation on developing indexes of ecosystem health in the Bering Sea that includes climate and fish growth factors. She has worked at NOAA since 1995 and she does research to support the management of federally-controlled commercial fisheries. That love of nature and problem solving led her to become a fisheries biologist. Position: Research Fisheries Biologist and Chief Scientist for Leg 2 of BASIS Ellen showing off a tiny squid that she was measuring on the scale.Įllen has always loved solving puzzles and has had a curiosity for nature and how it works. There are also several other women onboard the Dyson and my mission today was to meet some of these amazing women and interview them to see what they do onboard the Dyson and what motivated them to choose this as their career. NOAA Corps Officers - Rene, Sarah, and Amber taking a break from their duties to pose for a picture. I was excited to see that of the six officers onboard the Dyson three are women. I have met several NOAA Corps officers while I have been at NOAA and they have mostly been men. Their duties and areas of operations can range from launching a weather balloon at the South Pole, conducting fishery surveys in Alaska, maintaining buoys in the tropical Pacific, to flying P-3 Hurricane Hunter airplanes into hurricanes. Officers can be found operating one of NOAA’s 18 ships or 12 aircraft to provide support to meet NOAA’s missions. The NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. On the ship there are also NOAA Corps officers. For example, of the 12 scientists onboard the Dyson for this cruise, 9 are women including the Chief Scientist who is in charge of us all. ![]() Therefore when I finally met the people who I would be sailing with for the next two weeks, I was surprised and very happy to see that women had taken over the Dyson. I had wrongly gone along with the stereotypical view that scientists, engineers, fishermen, and the crew onboard ships were mostly men. I will admit that before I met the scientists and crew onboard the Dyson I had imagined that the majority of the people on the boat would be men. Science and Technology Log Real women aren't afraid of piles of jellyfish. Wave Height: 10 – 13ft with some larger wind-blown waves ![]() Mission: Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey (BASIS) ![]()
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