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I grew up in South Lake Tahoe, CA. For my undergrad, I attended the University of Puget Sound and graduated with a B.S. in Biology. After graduation, I traveled to Bamfield, British Colombia to take classes at the Bamfield Marine Science Centre, where I managed to work whales into a bird research project. Following a period of study in Spain, I interned with Cascadia Research, a marine mammal research group. At Cascadia, I mached photos of humpback, gray, and blue whales, and assisted with necropsies in the cold and rain. I spent October 2006 on the Scripps Institute of Oceanography FLIP ship (look it up; it's cool!). On FLIP, I was exposed to cetacean acoustics, the field that I hope to do my graduate work in.