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 :
Daniela Talamantes
OW-USS Scholars

Daniela Talamantes

Growing up in Mexico City, one of the biggest cities in the world, Daniela, 24, never imagined that the ocean would become such an important part of her life. During her childhood, she only visited the

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OW-USS Past Scholars

Eline Feenstra

Region: Europe Scholar Date: 2008 to 2009 Born and raised below sea level in the Netherlands, Eline Juliette Feenstra (22), has been selected as the European Rolex Scholar for 2008/2009. At the moment Eline is majoring

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OW-USS Past Scholars

Giovanni Catalano

Region: North America Scholar Date: 1994 to 1995 I am now an Undersea Medical Officer for the US Navy stationed in Bangor, Washington working with the local Navy divers and the crews of the trident submarines.

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