NOAA Northern Gulf Institute Diversity Internship Program In summary…

2008-2015: 70 students 2008-2015: 26 males, 44 females 2008-2015: 40 undergraduates 24 Master’s students 6 PhD candidates Ethnic diversity…

Black / African American Hispanic American Asian Indian /Latino White 2008 6 2009 4 1 5 2010 6 1 1 2 3 2011 1 4 1 2 1 2012 3 7 2013 2 3 3 2014 1 4 2 1 2015 2 1 1 2

TOTAL 25 20 2 12 10 Diversity in internship location…

List of Internship locations 1 Mississippi State University (Geosystems Research Institute, Agricultural Economics, Engineering) (2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) 2 University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (2009, 2010, 2011, 2102, 2013, 2014, 2015) 3 Jackson State University (2008) 4 Alcorn State University, MS (2013, 2014) 5 National Data Buoy Center, , MS (2010) 6 National Marine Fisheries Service - Southeast Fisheries Science Center, MS (2009, 2010, 2011, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) 7 Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (2009, 2010) 8 Dauphin Island Sea Lab, AL (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015) 9 State University (2009, 2010) 10 Louisiana Sea Grant (2009) 11 NOAA Office of Coast Survey, LA (2010, 2012) 12 National Weather Service -Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center, LA (2011, 2012) 13 State University - Coastal & Marine Laboratory (2009, 2010) 14 Harte Research Institute, TX (2010, 2011, 2102, 2013, 2015) 15 Valdosta State University, GA (2013, 2014) 16 National Center for Coastal Ocean Science - Center for Coastal Environmental Health & Biomolecular Research, SC (2010) 17 NOAA Central Library, MD (2011) 18 University of West Florida (2014) 19 The Water Institute, Baton Rouge, AL (2015) List of universities represented in interns 1 Jackson State University, MS (2008, 2010) 2 Mississippi State University (2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) 3 University of Southern Mississippi (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) 4 University of Mississippi (2010) Diversity 5 University of South Alabama (2009, 2012, 2013) 6 Tuskegee University (2012) 7 Troy University (2011) in home 8 Auburn University (2010) 9 Texas A&M Univ. Corpus Christi (2102) 10 Louisiana State University (2010) 11 University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2010) institution 12 University of New Orleans (2010, 2012) 13 Southern University of New Orleans (2012) 14 University of Florida (2013, 2014) 15 (2009) 16 University of Miami (2009) 17 Southeastern University (2011) 18 Emory University (2013) 19 University of Puerto Rico (Polytechnic, Mayaguez) (2010, 2011, 2013) 20 University of Maryland (2011) 21 Rutgers University (2009) 22 University of Rhode Island (2009) 23 Clark University (2013) 24 South Carolina State University (2010) 25 University of Mexico, Veracruz (2011) 26 Oberlin College (2014) 27 University of Maine (2014) 28 Lewis and Clark College (2014) 29 University of Portland (2014) 30 Barnard College (2014) 31 Pennsylvania State University (2014) 32 Duke University (2015) 33 Columbia University (2015) 34 University of South Florida (2015) 35 St Mary's University, TX (2015) 36 University of Alabama -Birmingham (2015) List of mentors 1 Rex Caffey (2010) 2 Tim Carruthers (2015) 3 Just Cebrian (2012) 4 Eric Chassignet (2009) 5 Suzanne Van Cooten (2012) 6 Lynne Cossman (2009) Thanks to 7 Andre Debose (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) 8 Jairo Diaz (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014) 9 Kelly Dorgan (2014) 10 James Gibeaut (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) our mentors! 11 Monty Graham (2012) 12 Joe Griffitt (2010, 2012) 13 Laodong Guo (2011) 14 Frank Hernandez (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015) 15 Steve Howden (2009) 16 Matt Interis (2012) 17 Dubravko Justic (2010) 18 Neal Kaske (2011) 19 Roy Kron (2009) 20 Steven Lohrenz (2009) 21 Paul Montagna (2015) 22 Melanie Morris (2010) 23 Steve Morton (2010) 24 James Nienow (2013, 2014) 25 Alice Ortmann (2014) 26 Tim Osborn (2010, 2012) 27 Daniel Petrolia (2011, 2012, 2013) 28 John Ramirez-Avila (2102, 2013, 2014, 2015) 29 Dave Reed (2010, 2011) 30 Alison Robertson (2015) 31 Alan Shiller (2013) 32 Richard Snyder (2014) 33 Chris Stallings (2010) 34 Chung-Chu Teng (2010) 35 Robert Twilley (2009) 36 John Valentine (2009) And a huge thanks to Russ Beard who has been the biggest supporter of this program since its inception.