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Erika Engelhaupt: Fear Of Flying

March 12, 2016

Erika Englehaupt gets a dream reporting assignment. There's just one problem--she has to take a small prop plane just like the one that she almost crashed in years ago.

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In 2016 - Part 1 Tags Journalism, Marine biology
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Rachel Pendergrass: A Bad Day at the Museum

December 4, 2015

Rachel Pendergrass gets her dream job: talking to visitors in an aquarium, but dealing with the questions are not what she expected.

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In 2015 - Part 2 Tags Jobs, Biology, Career, Marine biology
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Diana Reiss: Who is training who?

July 24, 2015

Early in her career researching dolphin intelligence Diana Reiss began wondering, "Who is training who?"

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In 2015 - Part 2 Tags Marine biology, Career
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Molly Payne Wynne: An Accomplice To Fish Murder

April 2, 2015

A summer job in Yellowstone National Park isn't quite what Molly Payne Wynne had been expecting.

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In 2015 - Part 1 Tags Marine biology, Career, Biology
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Shayle Matsuda: My First Expedition As A Man

November 24, 2014

Marine biologist Shayle Matsuda adapts to his new identity as a transgender man while on assignment in the Philippines.

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In 2014 - Part 2 Tags Marine biology, Identity
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Jeffrey Schell: Caught In The Rip Current

October 27, 2014

Oceanographer Jeffrey Schell finds himself in a race against time when he encounters swimmers stuck in a dangerous rip current.

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In 2014 - Part 2 Tags Marine biology, Adventure
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Meredith White: How To Write A Testimony

September 12, 2014

Marine scientist Meredith has to navigate a whole new world when she's called upon to testify in front of the Maine legislature in support of a crucial bill.

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In 2014 - Part 2 Tags Politics, Marine biology
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Skylar Bayer: Phoning Home From Alvin

February 10, 2014

Marine biologist Skylar Bayer faces her fears to go on a deep-ocean dive aboard the Alvin submersible, and ends up getting more than she expected.

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In 2014 - Part 1 Tags Family, Marine biology
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Eliza Strickland: Lost in the deep

October 20, 2013

Science writer Eliza Strickland discovers that in the race to the bottom of the Mariana Trench the most important thing is what they leave behind.

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In 2013 - Part 2 Tags Marine biology, Writing
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David Gelles: Have fun, be safe... in an ocean

April 15, 2012

At ten years old, David Gelles finds himself abandoned and swimming in an ocean with a storm coming. Alone. Except for the pod of dolphins.

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In 01/01/12-05/20-12 Tags Marine biology, Growing up
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