Hi!
My name’s Anesse. I grew up in San Diego, California and spent a large portion of my childhood traveling back and forth from Thailand, where my parents immigrated from. After graduating from high school, I flew across the country to pursue my Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science at the University of Rochester. From my growing interest in sustainability and the explanations and solutions for climate change, I found myself pursuing environmental science early on in my career. Growing up by the ocean, I became interested in biological oceanography because it gives me a new way of visualizing where I grew up my whole life.
My primary research interests include how organisms and earth’s systems are reacting to climate change and the long-term effects of this. I have been involved in research that explores the affects of glacier melts on the phytoplankton community in the Western Antarctic Peninsula and the different pathways of methane production in oxic water columns of freshwater. Both of which I go into more detail in on other posts.
I have two main goals I’d like to achieve as a scientist. Most of the professors, advisors, and peers I’ve had in this field have been primarily white and/or males. Especially in the field of oceanographic research, I’ve noticed that this field is even less diverse, historically dominated by males and only recently opened to females in 1969. The Research Experience for Undergraduates program I participated in gave me a small window of what the science community could be like if the field were more diverse, and it was an amazing experience full of new perspectives and motivated individuals. My first goal would be to continue going further into this field to be able to promote diversity and mentor those with similar feelings when they’re first going into the field. My second goal as a scientist is to blur the line between scientists and the public so that scientists are more aware about communicating their research to the community and the pubic become more interested and educated about the importance of research being conducted.
Thanks for visiting 🙂