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 :
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Jade Berman

Region: Europe Scholar Date: 2003 to 2004 Jade is a 23-year-old from Nottingham, England who is a PADI Assistant Instructor with over 260 dives and six specialities in nitrox, deep, wreck, night, search and recovery, and

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OW-USS Past Scholars

Matt Carter

Region: Australasia Scholar Date: 2009 to 2010 Growing up on the flat plains on the East Coast of the South Island of New Zealand Matt Carter’s early views of the world were dominated by two opposing

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OW-USS Past Scholars

Sophie Kalkowski-Pope

Sophie Kalkowski-Pope, 21, grew up in the beautiful coastal region of Cairns, Far North Queensland. Surrounded by reefs and rainforests, her childhood consisted of outdoor adventures and regular trips to the Great Barrier Reef on their

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