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)
After over a year of waiting, I was glad to finally be the 2021 Dr. Lee H. Somers AAUS Intern with the Our World Underwater Scholarship Society (OWUSS). I was originally supposed to participate last summer,
Dive No.: Week Five (Five dives) Location: Pudding (For that’s where the proofs are) Time in: 9 am Time out: 5pm Total Bottom Time: About 40 hours Depth: Up to my eyeballs in it Starting Air
I was bushwhacking through the Hawaiian jungle, clothes still wet from the day before. The sweet yet pungent smell of fermenting guava permeated the humid air, and my boots squished as I stepped
