Kirsten Bassion

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)

Current and Past Scholars :
OW-USS Past Scholars

Yolanda Bosiger

Region: Australasia Scholar Date: 2012 to 2013 Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society’s 2012 Australasian Rolex Scholar Growing up on a sailboat and circumnavigating the world with her parents until age eight gave Yoland an early taste for

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Steven Lindfield

Region: Australasia Scholar Date: 2008 to 2009 Steven Lindfield, 23 has been chosen as the Australasian Rolex Scholar for 2008/09. Steve grew up on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia. Living close to the ocean and

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Robin MacFadden Parish

Region: North America Scholar Date: 1976 Robin’s interest in marine biology sprouted during her childhood summers spent exploring tide pools on the coast of Maine, and exploded when, at the age of 10, her aunt stuck

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Megan Cook

Region: North America Scholar Date: 2012 to 2013 Megan Cook, 24, was raised in Boise, Idaho more than 500 miles from the nearest ocean. Growing up in an athletic, water-loving family, she developed a zest for

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