Vol. 18, No. 19	Feb. 11, 1999

Two graduate students named National Sea Grant fellows

Alison Sip and Dosoo Jang, graduate students in marine studies, have been selected as National Sea Grant fellows by the National Sea Grant College Program in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The program was established in 1979 to provide educational experience to students who have an interest in marine resources and national policy decisions pertaining to them. Students are matched with host agencies in the federal government working on marine issues.

The program is highly competitive and attracts some of the brightest students in the nation, according to Carolyn A. Thoroughgood, marine studies dean.

"Alison and Dosoo are deeply committed to bridging the gap between marine science and policy for the benefit of the environment and the public," she said. "As Sea Grant fellows, they will have an invaluable opportunity to contribute to ocean policy-making efforts on the national level."

Sipe, a master's degree candidate in marine biology-biochemistry, has been working on a project aimed at finding an antifoulant to repel the shipworm, a wood borer that causes millions of dollars in damage to ships, pilings and other coastal structures each year. She will be working at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Ocean Sciences.

Jang, a doctoral candidate in marine policy, is interested in integrated coastal management, which encourages the incorporation of science into the policy-making process. Last year, Jang worked as an integrated coastal management consultant at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.

Given NOAA's Ocean and Coastal Management Award for excellence in graduate study in 1997, he has been assigned to the International Programs Office in NOAA's National Ocean Service where he will help implement bilateral activities between the U.S., China and Japan in coastal environmental science and technology.