Region:
North America
Scholar Date:
1998 to 1999
Kirsten earned her BS in Art from Skidmore College (1997) graduating cum laude with departmental honors. Her primary underwater interests are education and photography. Kirsten was the Society’s 1997 intern to the Reef Environmental Education Foundation. She is now a graduate student at the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. She will receive her Masters of Fine Arts in 2004. (031702)
Region: Europe Scholar Date: 2012 Oscar Svensson, 24, was born on the west coast of Sweden but was raised in the middle of the country far from the sea for the first years of his life.
Region: Australasia Scholar Date: 1988 Karen Van Hoesen became a certified diver at age 17 and a NAUI diving instructor in 1983 while teaching diving at UC Davis. Her interest in diving physiology and medicine prompted
Region: North America Scholar Date: 1995 Giancarlo is currently the program manager for a marine education facility in Redondo Beach. He and Brenda (whom he met on his scholarship year) were married on July 21, 2001
