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P.O. BOX 6157 Woodridge, Illinois 60517 44th Annual Awards Program 630-969-6690 voice April 21, 2018 – New York Yacht Club – New York e-mail [email protected] [email protected]

Roberta A. Flanders Executive Administrator

Graphic design by Rolex SA – Cover photo: Mae Dorricott – Thank you to all the iconographics contributors. © Rolex SA, Geneva, 2018 – All rights reserved. 1 3 Welcome

It is my honor to welcome you to New York City and to the 44th anniversary celebration of the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society®. It is a great pleasure for me as president of the Society to bring the “family” together each year to renew friendships, celebrate all of our interns and Rolex Scholars, and acknowledge the efforts of our volunteers. Once again, we celebrate a long history of extraordinary scholarship, volunteer service, organizational partnership, and corporate sponsorship, especially an amazing, uninterrupted partnership with Rolex, our founding corporate sponsor.

This year is special. We bring three new Rolex Scholars and five new interns into our family resulting in an accumulative total of 100 Rolex Scholars and 102 interns since the inception of the Society, and all of this has been accomplished by our all-volunteer organization. Forty-four years of volunteers have been selfless in their efforts serving as directors, officers, committee members, coordinators, and technical advisors all motivated to support the Society’s mission “to promote educational activities associated with the underwater world.” “ A WHALE LIFTED HER HUGE, BEAUTIFUL HEAD None of this would have been possible without the incredible support by INTO MY WAITING ARMS AS the Society’s many organizational partners and corporate sponsors throughout I LEANT OVER THE SIDE the years. The one constant in the Society’s “life and history” has been the Rolex family which has been our “partner in education” during every one of OF A BOAT IN BAJA. our 44 years of educational outreach and scholarship. IT INSPIRED A PASSION TO CONSERVE AND PROTECT I take this opportunity on behalf of the directors and officers of the Our CETACEANS FOR THE World-Underwater Scholarship Society® to thank 44 years’ worth of volunteers, hosts, organizational partners, and corporate sponsors for REST OF MY LIFE.” supporting us and sharing in our dream of a better planet.

Melinda Brown

Steve Barnett, 1990 Rolex Scholar President Melinda Brown Sizing up with the enormous Humpback Whale Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society® © Scott Portelli

2 3 PARTNERS IN EDUCATION SINCE 1974

our world-underwater scholarship society ® 44th Annual Awards Program

WELCOME Elvin W. D. Leech, MBE, Chairman

2017 ROLEX SCHOLARS YEAR IN REVIEW & FLAG RETURN Water Worldwide Leah M. Potts 2017 North American Rolex Scholar A Conversation with the Sea Mae KL Dorricott 2017 European Rolex Scholar Chasing Ocean Giants Melinda Brown 2017 Australasian Rolex Scholar

DINNER

Jarrod Jablonski 2018 DAN Rolex Diver of the Year

INTERNSHIP PROGRAM Mae flying the scholarship flag over “Mae’s Day” on Ant Atoll, Pohnpei, a new dive site named after her. ©Felix Butschek PRESENTATION OF THE 2018 ROLEX SCHOLARSHIPS Yann Herrera Fuchs 2018 North American Rolex Scholar Èric Jordà Molina 2018 European Rolex Scholar Olivia J. Johnson 2018 Australasian Rolex Scholar

2 3 History

100 ROLEX SCHOLARS, 102 INTERNS, AND SO MANY VOLUNTEERS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE ALL CREATED A SIGNIFICANT

From its roots in the Midwestern United States LEGACY FOR OUR ORGANIZATION 44 years ago, the Our World-Underwater­ Scholarship AND OUR FUTURE. Society® has grown into a global organization. 100 Rolex Scholars — in North America, Europe, and Australasia — along with 102 interns in North America and Europe have created a significant legacy for our organization. Many of our Rolex In 1972, Harry Shanks and The first few scholarships were managed by the the diving industry in the form of diving and Scholars and interns have gone on to distinguished Joyce Markstahler traveled to Scholarship Committee of Our World-Underwater, underwater photographic equipment, advanced and careers in the underwater sciences, marine research, San Francisco to attend the which was initially chaired by Dr. MacInnis. specialized dive training, hosting experiences and and photography. “Man in the Sea” dive show. subsidized travel, and an engraved diver’s watch During a cruise on San Francisco In 1978, the Scholarship Committee of Our donated by Rolex to each of the scholars. Bay, Joyce spoke with Dr. Joe World-­Underwater was incorporated as a separate It all began in 1969, when Joyce Markstahler and MacInnis, a Canadian physician and well-known entity in the State of Illinois as the Our World-­ In 2001, Rolex SA, Geneva, saw the positive Jim Mackie-Smith formulated the idea of a explorer. They discussed a proposal from the Underwater Scholarship ­Society® (OWUSS). impact of the award and agreed to sponsor a Middle Coast dive show. They approached Harry OWU Board of Directors to use $1,500 of the For many years, the annual meetings for the European Rolex Scholar, giving the Our Shanks, President-YMCA Metro Council of OWU dive show profits to finance research. Scholarship Society were held in Chicago during World-Underwater Scholarship Society® Chicago, for assistance in developing the Our Dr. MacInnis in turn pro­posed an alternative the OWU show. international reach and exposure. In 2001, the World-Underwater (OWU) Dive and Travel idea. He suggested using the money to invest scholarship of the Our World-Underwater Exposition. Harry supplemented the initial cadre in an individual with an experience-based In 2000, the directors of OWU sold the rights of Scholarship Society® was renamed the Rolex of volunteers with the officers of the Metro scholarship that would cultivate the individual the dive show. Since that time, the Scholarship Scholarship and all scholars dating back to 1974 Council and premiered that first OWU show at in the industry and the underwater world. Then Society is no longer associated with OWU, and, in became Rolex Scholars. ­Chicago’s Playboy Hotel in 1971. and there, on Sep­tem­ber 3, 1972, the Our 2005, the Scholarship Society moved its annual World-Underwater Scholarship was born. meeting to New York City. The Scholarship Society In 2007, Rolex Australia further expanded the The initial idea was that the profits from the show has thrived through the invaluable assistance of its Society’s international outreach with the addition would be donated to the YMCA scuba program During the next year and a half, Joyce Markstahler many dedicated volunteers and sponsors, who have of the Australasian Rolex Scholarship. In addition in Chicago. Joyce named the new dive show “Our and Joe MacInnis worked to develop a list of hosts worked hard to promote educational activities to the Rolex ­Scholarships, the OWUSS currently World-Underwater,” and LeRoy Winbush designed and experiences that would provide a credible associated with the underwater world. Rolex Watch offers internships in North America. The North the logo, which is still in use today. The upper half scholarship experience to a young person, so they USA has been the ­Society’s “partner in education” American summer internships are offered for a of the logo features the Great Lakes of the United could be developed as a future steward of the since 1974. As the Society’s Founding Partner, one- to three-month period and are primarily States, reflecting the primary diving environment waters of the world. The inaugural Our World- Rolex has worked with the board of directors in directed at college undergraduates. Internship of the Society’s founders and supporters. The logo Underwater Schol­ar­ship was awarded to Mark the form of advice and counsel since our inception. recipients receive a grant to help fund travel, room is a permanent reminder of the Society’s roots. Bensen in 1974. Additional support comes from throughout and board, and a stipend to cover living expenses.

4 5 NORTH AMERICAN ROLEX SCHOLAR LEAH M. POTTS

LEAH captured this photo while diving the wrecks of Malta to practice 3D photogrammetry. © Leah Potts

NOTABLE HIGHLIGHTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS >> Certified on four types of closed circuit rebreather units >> Dived 75 hours and in all types of environments on the SubGravity EXPERIENCES Defender CCR >> Closed circuit rebreather training >> Practiced photogrammetry on Malta’s >> Cold water diving expeditions shipwrecks NASA >> Chamber diving >> Joined a team for the exploration and Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston © Leah Potts >> Dive operations documentation of a rare mine site >> Microplastics research >> Created 3D models of mine artifacts YEAR IN REVIEW >> Submersible suit R&D >> Mine is undergoing application to the >> Over 100 dives >> Film/photo shoots National Register of Historic Places >> 75 hours on a closed circuit rebreather >> Water resources professional >> Worked with professionals in the >> 4 continents development program in the Netherlands Netherlands on water management >> More than 20 experiences >> Artificial structure colonization research strategies >> Travelled across the globe to: Denmark, >> Photogrammetry training >> Assisted with research in Shanghai Norway (Svalbard), Malta, Netherlands, >> Diver physiology research examining diver physiology Kenya, China, Mexico, Canada (British >> Underwater archaeology >> Surveyed drought-impacted Kenyan Columbia), United States (Florida, North >> Presented at four diving conferences/shows farmers on their irrigation practices Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New York, >> Astronaut training at Neutral Buoyancy Lab >> Worked with the African Billfish Foundation Browning Pass, Vancouver Island, Massachusetts, California, Washington >> Irrigation and fishing research on bycatch mitigation research All the life there is oversized, such as these dinner plate anemones and eerie kelp. State, Texas) >> Human Factors in Diving course >> Dived in unexplored Arctic sites © Leah Potts

6 7 EUROPEAN ROLEX SCHOLAR MAE KL DORRICOTT

Mae snapping the Bull Sharks © Jayne Jenkins

ACCOMPLISHMENTS NOTABLE HIGHLIGHTS >> Introduction and development in technical AND ACHIEVEMENTS diving including a technical pass in GUE >> 12 magazine/blog publications for 4 Fundamentals organizations >> TDI Closed Circuit Rebreather Helitrox and >> Became an ambassador for 2 separate Decompression procedures UK charities >> PADI Instructor development course >> Gained experience in technical diving; >> Developed underwater photography and twin sets to CCR YEAR IN REVIEW videography skills with award winning >> Explored remote Micronesian reefs with >> More than 140 dives photographers a dive site named after me >> Over 160 hours underwater >> Joined science expedition to Pohnpei >> Contributed as an author to a chapter for >> 76 hours on a closed circuit rebreather (Federated States of Micronesia), a scientific publication in Springer >> 17 countries including England, Scotland, collecting novel data on rebreathers >> Cycled in New Zealand with Tread Lighter Mae shell hunting ©Daisy Fernie Wales, Germany, Grand Cayman, Mexico, >> Assisted with research on shark repellents to spread awareness of cutting out single Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia), conducted on Great White Sharks in use plastic Fiji, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, South Australia >> Experienced black water diving in the Egypt, Denmark, Indonesia, USA (California, >> Gained experience with NGOs; Tread Lembeh Strait, photographing plankton New York and Florida), Bahamas Lighter, Algalita, NEKTON: Mission, and marine larvae >> 38 Flights Project Aborad >> Sailed with Captain Charles Moore on >> 5 continents >> Gained experience of science board Algalita >> Over 70,000 miles travelled communication with MOTE Lab and Irvine >> Interacted with countless new marine >> Planted 40 mangrove propagules to Science Communications animals including great white sharks, carbon offset one set of flights. >> Provided sting-ray wound first aid care to humpback whales, blue-ringed octopus, >> 64 hours spent sleeping in airports a former Miss England mantis shrimp and sea lions

© Mae Dorricott

8 9 The moment one AUSTRALASIAN of my lifelong dreams came true; ROLEX SCHOLAR patting the famous Gray Whales MELINDA BROWN ©James Biscardi

CRUISING next to the SVII camera on The Ocean Agency’s 50 Reefs project in Palau ©Richard Vevers NOTABLE HIGHLIGHTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS >> Spent a month swimming with humpback EXPERIENCES whales in Tonga to assist data collection >> Training in nitrox, first aid, freediving and for the Tongan Fluke Collective with scientific diving Scott Portelli >> Completed an ecological niche modelling >> Free dived 33m on a single breath course using statistical analysis program “R” >> Was the only team member allowed to

My first magical encounter with a manta ray >> Assisted Ocean Agency on their maiden get in the water with some of the largest Up close and personal with the Australian in the beautiful blue waters of Tahiti Sea Lions ©Melinda Brown ©Melinda Brown 50 Reefs voyage in Palau bottlenose dolphins in the world to get >> Worked with white sharks in South ID shots YEAR IN REVIEW Australia >> Came 2nd in the Rodney Fox Shark >> Over 130 dives >> Assisted novel study in regards to Expeditions Nikon Shootout >> More than 160 hours underwater sacoglossans gastropod predation by >> Completed a GUE fundamentals course >> Over 22 experiences monostomatous mushroom coral >> Competed in the Celebrate the Sea >> 18 countries/territories including Palau, >> Assisted research on multiple species of Shootout in Manado Bali, Tahiti, Thailand, Tonga, Scotland, cetacean in Scotland, England and Wales >> Assisted whale shark research and England, Wales, Fiji, Honduras, Mexico, >> Expeditions to Tahiti and Baja Mexico conservation in Utila Sri Lanka >> Completed the World Cetacean Alliance’s >> Dived in multiple cenotes in Mexico >> 5 continents ‘Responsible Whale Guide’ course (first time in any sort of cave system for me !) >> Over 60 flights >> Assisted research on the biggest animal to >> Met the gray whales of Magdelena Bay >> Kissed a gray whale on the head have ever existed on earth; the Blue Whale with Lindblad expeditions

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Mae zooming around the cavern with a scooter © Rob Maine

Taken immediately after passing my TDI Subgravity Defender Air Diluent Course with Jon and Lauren Kieren © Leah Potts

Celebrating the completion of my GUE Fundamentals course with my wonderful new GUE family © Melinda Brown

“ BLACK WATER DIVING REINFORCED HOW AT HOME I FEEL IN THE SEA. EVEN IN THE PITCH BLACK WITH NO POINT OF REFERENCE, I DIDN’T FEEL THE SLIGHTEST BIT SCARED. IT WAS LIBERATING TO FLOAT IN THE DARK ALONGSIDE THE WONDERFUL AND BIZARRE CREATURES OF THE NIGHT.”

MAE KL DORRICOTT

Group photo of the underwater photographers of Aarhus © Rene Bruno Nielsen

12 13 DAN ROLEX NORTH AMERICAN DIVER OF THE YEAR ROLEX SCHOLAR JARROD JABLONSKI YANN HERRERA FUCHS

Pioneering cave and technical diver Jarrod Jablonski Diving Section and was also a member of the Yann Herrera Fuchs, 24, was born in Cuernavaca, to make a difference in Mexico’s efforts to preserve has made a significant impact on technical diver advisory board for the International Association the city of “eternal spring”, not far from the nature. Despite the logistical and financial barriers training and safety in the last 25 years. One of of Nitrox and Technical Divers. Mexican coast. He spent his childhood in of diving, Yann attempted to explore different the principal architects of the “Doing It Right” While serving as training director for the Woodville swimming pools and the tropical shores of the underwater settings. In Quintana Roo, he (DIR) system of diving, Jablonski is responsible Karst Plain Project Jablonski identified a need and Mexican Pacific, attempting to swim like a dolphin submerged himself in cenotes, cavern-like orifices for many important innovations in curricula and an opportunity to expand his role to benefit a larger or hold his breath underwater for long periods of that connect the subterranean waterways of the equipment design. population of divers and in 1998 founded Global time. At the age of eight, his family moved to Mayan coasts. He also got certified for dry suit First certified as a recreational diver in 1984, he Underwater Explorers (GUE), a nonprofit training Seattle, but not even the cold weather and frequent diving in Canada. During his final years at UBC, began cave diving in college and became a certified and educational organization for recreational, rain stopped Yann from enjoying the ocean. He Yann served as a research assistant working on an cave diver in 1989. He also became an open water technical and cave divers. He is currently GUE’s soon found a hobby in jumping around tide pools indigenous fisheries project and was awarded a grant instructor that year; he has been or is currently an president and training director. searching for jellyfish, sea urchins and starfish. to take a sustainability field course in Iceland. instructor for GUE, NAUI, PADI, CMAS, YMCA, Jablonski is also president and CEO of Halcyon Yann eventually moved back to Mexico City, but After graduating, Yann made the leap back to PDIC and DAN and has been an instructor trainer Manufacturing, which he founded in 2000. Since the longing for closer contact with the ocean Mexico and began working for World Wildlife for GUE, IANTD, NSS‐CDS and the NACD. 2007 he has been a member of the Undersea and brought him to Vancouver, Canada, a few years Fund, where he got closer to Baja California’s Jablonski began his career as a cave diving instructor Hyperbaric Medical Society diving committee, later to seek a degree in Environmental Science fishing sector, government, and coastal in 1990 in Ginnie Springs, Florida, where he taught offering guidance in safe diving practices and from the University of British Columbia (UBC). communities. His lead project focused on until 1996. From 1993 to 1996 Jablonski was also medical fitness to dive. He became a fellow of The At UBC Yann focused on economic, social, and developing alternative fishing gear in the Upper a scientific diver at the University of Florida, Explorers Club in 2008 and in 2014 assumed environmental sustainability. He spent time in Gulf of California in an effort to protect the supporting research on groundwater in the Santa Fe dive safety, training and operational responsibilities Costa Rica working with a volunteer organization endemic vaquita porpoise, considered the world’s River Basin. In the late 1990s he served on the for the Deep Diving Facility at the Nad Al Sheba on a turtle conservation project, patrolling beaches most endangered marine mammal. He also boards of directors of the National Association Sports Complex in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. at night and relocating turtle eggs safely to keep participated as a diver in shark monitoring of Cave Diving, Florida Speleological Researchers, Jablonski holds the world record for the longest cave them away from poachers. This field experience programs, reef clean-ups and ecosystem health Inc. and the National Speleological Society - Cave penetration at depth: 19,000 feet at 300 feet deep. triggered his passion for marine conservation. He assessments. Yann insists that community efforts completed his open water diver’s course in Mexico, and underwater education are key to preventing diving for the first time in the harbor of Veracruz. further disconnection between people and our nat- The world’s most recognized and respected dive safety organization, Divers Alert Network (DAN) has Yann was stunned by the abundance of coral and ural water resources. The 2018 OWUSS Rolex remained committed to the health and well-being of divers for 38 years. The organization’s research, marine life that was present despite being situated Scholarship is the perfect opportunity to explore medical services and global-response programs support an extensive network capable of reaching near a major industrial port. Acknowledging the this idea and ignite a sense of environmental divers with vital injury-prevention initiatives, educational programs and lifesaving evacuations. Every resilience that aquatic life can have with good stewardship in those who have lost a connection day, hundreds of thousands of divers around the world look to DAN as their dive safety organization. conservation measures made him feel empowered to our world underwater.

14 15 EUROPEAN AUSTRALASIAN ROLEX SCHOLAR ROLEX SCHOLAR ÈRIC JORDÀ MOLINA OLIVIA J. JOHNSON

Èric, 24, is an enthusiastic diver from Barcelona. 2017, he participated in a 12 day-long scientific Born in Hobart, Tasmania, 23 year-old Olivia’s Returning to Australia in May 2017, Olivia worked A PADI Rescue diver currently living in Norway, cruise in the waters of Svalbard as a benthic fascination for the ocean began at a young age: her as a field technician at the Institute for Marine and he has become enthralled with the Norwegian research assistant. father was a commercial diver and she has always Antarctic Studies (IMAS) UTAS, where she gained sub-arctic fjords. Most recently, Èric has been working on his loved swimming, snorkelling and fossicking an immense amount of experience in diving research His passion for the oceans started early when his master’s thesis, researching soft-bottom benthic through rock pools. It was in Year 9 at Taroona on multiple projects. She also completed her SSI parents bought him the collection of Jacque-Yves communities of Tysfjord, the deepest fjord of High School where Olivia discovered her true Dive Master training. Currently completing her Cousteau’s The Undersea World. As a child, he spent Northern Norway. Èric has also worked as a lab passion for all things marine in a course called honours year with IMAS UTAS, Olivia’s project long hours snorkelling in the small coves of the assistant for the Benthic Ecology Research Unit, “Exploring the Ocean.” Progressing to the involves using local divers’ ecological knowledge to Costa Brava, feeling the gentle stroke of the assisted in fieldwork and Marine Biology teach- advanced course, Olivia gained her PADI Open model and map the distribution and abundance of a posidonia on his belly, playing with octopus and ing-related activities at UiN, and performed Water, Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diver range-extending sea urchin (Centrostephanus rodg- discovering marine life encrusted in the coastal rocks. MOM-B analysis for environmental monitoring of certifications. In high school and college, Olivia also ersii) along Tasmania’s East Coast. In her research, His fascination with the underwater world led him the seafloor in Norwegian aquaculture facilities as developed a passion for underwater hockey and has she utilises closed-circuit rebreathers to collect data to complete his bachelor’s degree in Marine Science a field biologist. been a representative at the state and national levels from depths greater than 20 metres, a novel at the University of Alicante, in the south of Spain. Èric’s interests also include photography, on multiple occasions. contribution to diving research in Tasmania. Olivia’s During his course work, Èric enrolled in an videography and illustration. By using artistic At 19, Olivia began her degree in Marine and project aims to address temporal and spatial data ERASMUS exchange at Nord University, located approaches, he aspires to convey that marine science Antarctic Science at the University of Tasmania gaps and bridge the gaps between industry, science, in Bodø in the Norwegian arctic. He studied is amazing and adventurous and continually offers (UTAS), graduating in 2016 with majors in Marine government and the wider public. epibenthic communities in the area of Vesterålen and something new to learn and discover. He has a and Antarctic studies, Ecology and Zoology. During Receiving the Rolex Scholarship is a great privilege, learned a wide range of marine benthic taxa. His special fascination for deep sea exploration and for this time, she undertook a commercial course in providing Olivia with an incredible opportunity to love of northern Norway inspired him to go further the polar ecosystems, as he is certain they are still Scientific Diving, receiving ADAS and AAUS learn about the global marine environment, develop north to the high Arctic, enrolling at The University hiding innumerable secrets yet to be unveiled. certifications. After her undergraduate degree, Olivia a career path in the underwater world, and make Center in Svalbard to take courses in Arctic Marine Èric hopes to gain more knowledge about diving received an six-month internship as a Marine global connections in the fields of ocean conservation Biology and Arctic Environmental Management. during the Scholarship, becoming an even more Biologist at the One&Only Reethi Rah resort in the and preservation. Her key interests include ecology, Èric started his Master of Science in Biology and proficient and solid scientific diver by the end of Maldives. Here she received training in manta ray and climate change, bridging the communication Aquaculture at Nord University and returned to the experience. He sees the opportunity of turtle identification and cataloguing, coral bleaching, gap between the latest science and the public’s Svalbard periodically in 2017. He took some becoming the next OWUSS European Rolex coral restoration, olive ridley turtle rescue, and ghost knowledge, and studying the impact of human external courses in Underwater Robotics and in Scholar 2018 as a once in a lifetime chance to ex- net removal. She assisted in turtle DNA sampling interactions on the marine environment. This Arctic Benthic Ecology, with intense fieldwork perience the challenges marine environments and green sea turtle nesting and hatching events, all scholarship will provide a platform for Olivia to be on board of the R/V Helmer Hanssen and at the around the world are facing and to investigate how the while creating positive guest experiences through an ambassador for the protection of our oceans as polar research town of Ny-Ålesund. In November we, as a collective, can contribute to change. education and guided snorkelling tours. well as for women in marine research and diving.

16 17 2017 Internship 2018 Internship

DR. ARTHUR J. BACHRACH AMERICAN ACADEMY OF BONNIER DIVE UNDERWATER SCIENCES GROUP PUBLISHING (AAUS) MITCHELL Lena Block, 21, is currently a sophomore INTERNSHIP SCIENTIFIC DIVING studying Marine Biology at the University of Chase A. Brunton, RESEARCH INTERNSHIP Hawaii at Manoa. Originally from Santa Cruz, University of Maine Lena B. Block, California, Lena has grown up connected to the University of ocean and chose to study biology in order to com- Hawaii - Manoa bine her love of conservation and diving. In high Chase Brunton, 26, currently lives in Old Town, school, Lena volunteered with The Marine Maine. Chase graduated from the University of Mammal Center, rescuing stranded marine Maine with a degree in English in 2016. In mammals along the California coast. addition to his English studies at UMaine, he acted on his childhood interest in the ocean, taking Lena became PADI Open Water certified in 2014 several marine science courses such as marine during her senior year of high school. After ecology, marine policy, and algal biology, and earned The Mitchell Scientific Diving Research high school, Lena embarked on a gap year, his basic Open Water SCUBA certification. Chase Internship provides undergraduates with traveling to Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Fiji, was an active member of his school’s SCUBA club, experiences to build upon their scientific and Madagascar. In Thailand, Lena volunteered at and worked for a year as a writer for Maine Sea diving education and to further help prepare Elephant Nature Park where she had the unique Grant, a branch of the NOAA-funded program that them for a future in science, research experience of assisting with the rescue of an injured funds marine research, education and outreach. diving, or scientific diving-related fields. and abused elephant. In Cambodia, she taught The internship is designed for current English to second grade Cambodian children. In During his internship with the team at Bonnier Dive undergraduates who are active American both Fiji and Madagascar, Lena had her first Group, Chase was able to learn the ins and outs of Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) experiences with scientific diving, doing fish working for a major magazine while sharing his scientific divers interested in assisting with and invertebrate surveys as a volunteer with a interest in the oceans and SCUBA with the world. the day-to-day operations of an AAUS non-profit group. Living simply on small islands Based in Winter Park, Florida, the recipient of In addition to collaborating with a team of editors Organizational Member. Opportunities and diving almost daily, Lena found her passion: this internship gained valuable real world and writers, he was grateful to learn tips for writing include planning scientific dives, preparing bringing together diving and scientific study. experience in magazine publishing. Bonnier in the digital age, and to experience working daily in dive equipment, assisting in scientific diver While in Fiji she gained her PADI Advanced Corporation is one of the largest consumer- an office. Diving the warm, clear Florida waters for training, participating on research projects, Open Water, Rescue Diver, and Dive Master publishing groups in America, with nearly 50 the first time was also a life-changing experience, and spending time on research boats, diving, certifications. Subsequently, Lena worked as a dive special-interest magazines and related he can’t wait for his next tropical dive. interacting with divers, and logging dives. master at Taveuni Ocean Sports in Fiji, deepening multimedia projects and events. The Bonnier The internship may also include advanced her love for the underwater world. Determined to Dive Group includes Sport Diver, Scuba Chase is hoping to use his experience at Bonnier to training in program management, offering continue excelling as a diver, Lena earned her Diving, and Undersea Journal. The intern had continue in the areas of outreach and communication insights into operational standards, proper AAUS Scientific Diver certification in the spring the opportunity to contribute to these and in the marine sciences. He’s currently working on dive planning, documentation, and operation of 2017. Lena is excited for the opportunity to other Bonnier Corporation publications. his personal blog, and hopes to enter the field of and maintenance of equipment and facilities. acquire new scientific diving skills, working as a marine outreach and education. member of a team of researchers.

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DR. LEE H. SOMERS DIVERS ALERT AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NETWORK (DAN) UNDERWATER SCIENCES Shane Farrell, 20, from Minneapolis, MN, is DIVER’S SAFETY (AAUS) SCIENTIFIC currently a junior at Lawrence University in EDUCATION INTERNSHIP DIVING INTERNSHIP Appleton, WI, where he is pursuing a double Emily A. Hellmann, Shane P. Farrell, major in government and biology. Old Dominion University Lawrence University Shane began diving recreationally with his mom when he was in middle school. After obtaining his Open Water Certification in 2010, his passion for diving and the world underwater was ignited. Since then, Shane has received certifications in a variety of dive specialties including ice diving, deep diving, dry suit diving, search and recovery, and emergency oxygen provider. While taking classes and working as a research assistant at Emily Hellmann, 22, from Manassas, Virginia, is a Lawrence, Shane is completing his Dive Master Offered at Divers Alert Network (DAN) senior at Old Dominion University. She is majoring certification and helping with classes at a dive headquarters in Durham, North Carolina, in Earth Science Education, and will be staying an This internship provides experience for a shop in Wisconsin. the Diver’s Safety Education Internship extra year to get her teaching license. Emily picked young person interested in a future in focuses on the need for ongoing education Earth Science Education as a major so she could science, diving for research, or scientific Shane has pursued his passion for science while among divers. While not directly involving continue to learn more about the ocean while being diving-related fields. Intern applicants can at Lawrence, where he has primarily focused on diving, the internship provides exposure to able to share her passion with younger students. be students from colleges and universities microbiology and molecular cloning. He began a non-traditional application of education During her time at ODU, she has been given many with an interest in science and diving. The working as a research assistant in the biology as a recreational activity. The intern opportunities to explore her love of the ocean with program runs from mid-May through August department as a freshman, and has co-authored a participates in the development, monitoring, different lab classes as well as field trips to the and will include training at one of several paper based on cloning and characterizing ciliated and evaluation of programs dedicated Outer Banks in North Carolina. AAUS organizational member sites. This genes in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. to the safety education of the diving training will give the intern the necessary public from a non-profit setting. Internship Emily has had a passion for diving from a young dive qualifications to allow participation on Shane has begun to merge his passion for activities are based on current programs or age, as her father is an active SCUBA instructor. research projects requiring scientific diving underwater discovery and research while in college. projects in development at DAN, and may After she was certified at age 11, Emily made it and introduce the intern to careers that utilize In his spring term, he will travel to the Caymans be tailored to accommodate individual her personal goal to be as involved with the ocean scientific diving as a tool. Once trained as an to conduct dive research. Shane is looking forward intern interests. Projects may include as possible. In 2015 Emily expanded her diving AAUS-recognized diver-in-training, interns to exploring a new area of science while combining reviewing and revising existing programs, knowledge and became a rescue diver, and she will participate in underwater fieldwork at his passion for research and underwater discovery vetting evaluation materials, scripting video plans on becoming a dive master one day. Through one or more locations and research facilities this summer as the 2018 Our World-Underwater content, and assisting in the development scuba diving, Emily has been given opportunities associated with AAUS. Scholarship Society Dr. Lee H. Somers Scientific of new programs. to travel the world, and she cannot wait to share Diving Intern with AAUS. her experiences with her future students.

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NATIONAL PARK DR. JAMIE L. KING SERVICE RESEARCH REEF ENVIRONMENTAL INTERNSHIP Shannon Brown, 22, is from Lake Forest, IL. She EDUCATION Ronnie’s first-hand experience of the underwater Shannon D. Brown, graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University FOUNDATION (REEF) world came when she achieved her open water University of Oregon of Oregon with a Bachelor of Science degree in MARINE diving licence at age 14. Fueled by the desire to Honors Marine Biology. Shannon plans to attend CONSERVATION make the ocean relatable, even to her peers in graduate school in the fall of 2018. INTERNSHIP Michigan, she set out to achieve a degree in Ronnie A. Noonan, marine biology. Studying at Dalhousie University During her undergraduate degree, Shannon spent Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, Ronnie found her true several months immersed in the marine ecosystems passion in communicating ocean sciences. of the Oregon coast. She honed her research and This ability was first exercised when she was writing skills by completing an honors thesis on volunteering as a touch tank interpreter for a local the appendage regeneration of marine feather non-profit. It was then that Ronnie fell in love duster worms. In early 2017, Shannon traveled with the “aha” moment; the moment when you to Bonaire, Dutch Caribbean, to study the know you have truly connected with your audience community structure and time budgeting of the on something you are passionate about. fairy basslet. While in Bonaire, Shannon also earned her AAUS scientific diver certification. She Seeing that her knowledge could spur change, returned to Bonaire, after graduation, to work as Ronnie set out to experience other aspects of The National Park Service Research an intern. While interning, Shannon received her ocean sciences. Wanting to use her scuba diving Internship provides a unique opportunity SDI Divemaster certification and worked on Offered in Key Largo, Florida, the Marine skills to help illustrate the conversation to work with leading archaeologists, numerous research projects, namely a long-term Conservation Internship provides an about ocean conservation, Ronnie embarked underwater photographers, and scientists project on the island’s benthos and a project opportunity to experience the working at a on an internship at a research lab in Zavora, in the National Park Service and other focusing on the life cycle of a trematode parasite nonprofit environmental organization. REEF Mozambique. The extreme diving conditions and agencies in the American state and federal found in reef fish. is a grassroots, non‑profit organization of unique location helped Ronnie comprehend the government. Specific work projects will recreational divers dedicated to protecting resilience and discipline it takes to dedicate be determined based upon the interests Shannon is excited and honored to participate in and preserving the underwater environment. oneself to ocean conservation. She took this of the intern as well as the needs of the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society’s Outside duties include environmental appreciation into her most recent position as an associated projects. The internship is Internship Program. She has always had a passion presentations to local and visiting schools, environmental educator. based in Denver, Colorado, but it is for the outdoors and has enjoyed exploring the university, dive, and public groups; working expected that the intern will travel to National Parks throughout her lifetime. She looks with other local marine conservation entities; Being able to inspire youth with her own passion projects within the continental United forward to combining her passion for nature and and opportunities for conducting marine life taught her the importance of training the next States and potentially overseas as part the marine world. The opportunity to work with surveys during local dives. Office duties generation to be future stewards of our planet. of this internship. Experiences could the National Park Service Submerged Resources include handling memberships, incoming Now, with one year left in her degree, Ronnie involve a specific project in a single park Center will allow her to expand her marine con- marine life survey data, answering e-mail, is thrilled to learn from OWUSS and REEF or a larger project in multiple parks. servation and research skills, while also learning and dealing with the public. to help her fulfill her goal of becoming a more about scientific outreach. science communicator.

22 23 Partners Officers & Directors

FOUNDING PARTNER Elvin W. D. Leech, MBE Stephanie F. Roach Vincent J. Malkoski Rolex SubGravity Chairman VP – Internships Class of 2020 Suunto VP – European Operations Class of 2019 Marion, Massachusetts FOUNDING PATRON Tabata Australia Class of 2018 2008 REEF Intern Joseph B. MacInnis, M.D. TUSA Belfast, N. Ireland Washington, D.C. Howard N. Painter, JP, FCA Undersea Hunter Group Class of 2018 CORPORATE SPONSORS Waterproof Expeditions Steven M. Barnett Debra M. Richardson Worcester, England Animal Ocean President Secretary Apeks Marine Equipment Ltd ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS Class of 2019 Plainfield, Illinois Karen Raubenheimer, Ph.D. Aqua Lung America, Inc. American Academy of Underwater Sciences 1990 Rolex Scholar Class of 2020 Beqa Adventure Divers Beneath the Sea Eugene, Oregon Martha L. Sanders Sydney, Australia Bonnier Dive Group Blue Venture Treasurer Disabled Divers International COARE E. Jayne Jenkins Chicago, Illinois Glen H. Egstrom, Ph.D. Divers Alert Network (DAN) Dive Industry Association VP – Australasian Director Emeritus Diving Unlimited International (DUI) Diving Diseases Research Centre Operations Susan C. Crowe Los Angeles, California Fourth Element Global Underwater Explorers Sydney, Australia Class of 2018 Halcyon Dive Systems Indiana University Port Macquarie, NSW, Betsey Riley Hollis Kieren Technical Robin MacFadden Parish Australia Director Emeritus Howard Painter & Co., Ltd. Monaco Blue Initiative VP – North American Port Salerno, Florida Light & Motion Monterey Bay Aquarium Operations Alison L. LaBonte, Ph.D. Lindblad Expeditions National Park Service Class of 2019 Class of 2020 Roberta A. Flanders Marine Grafics NAUI Worldwide 1976 Rolex Scholar 2000 Rolex Scholar Executive Administrator Nauticam NOAA Diving Center Wheaton, Illinois Berkeley, California Woodridge, Illinois Ocean Technology Systems NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuaries Oceanwide Expeditions Ocean Geographic Pascal Lecocq PADI Reef Photo & Video Reef Environmental Education Foundation Rodney Fox Shark Expeditions Richard Laurence Parish Foundation Shark Bay Films, UK TDI / SDI Silent Diving The Explorers Club Silvertip Expeditions University of Tasmania

24 25 The Rolex Scholars

Mark V. Bensen (NA 1974) Adam B. Ravetch (NA 1985) Julie S. Barber (NA 1999) William Arlidge (AU 2010) Robert M. Adams (NA 1975) Patty Debenham (NA 1985) Alison L. LaBonte (NA 2000) Christian Clark (NA 2011) Douglas C. Zinn (NA 1975) Patrick J. Kilbride (NA 1985) Jennifer Jeffers (NA 2001) Erin McFadden (EU 2011) Neal Shapiro (NA 1975) Alan C. Hilton (NA 1986) Joe R. Stevens (EU 2001) Anthea Ibell Madill (AU 2011) Pete Romano (NA 1975) Norbert Wu (NA 1986) Stefanie Wells Misner (NA 2002) Megan Cook (NA 2012) Robin MacFadden Parish (NA 1976) Craig M. Lee (NA 1986) Richard E. Somerset (EU 2002) Oscar Svensson (EU 2012) Ronald L. Coley (NA 1976) Michael Topolovac (NA 1987) Kerry J. Nickols (NA 2003) Yoland Bosiger (AU 2012) S. Ryan Taylor (NA 1976) Wesley R. Strong (NA 1987) Jade Berman (EU 2003) Jeffrey B. Hester (NA 2013) S. Craig Cary (NA 1977) Donna M. Schroeder (NA 1987) Joseph C. Hoyt (NA 2004) Chloé Maréchal (EU 2013) Charles D. Wheatley (NA 1977) Karen Van Hoesen (NA 1988) Phoebe Rudomino (EU 2004) Stefan M. Andrews (AU 2013) Richard Henry Salas (NA 1977) Beth Kneeland Pickett (NA 1988) Anna Watson Hanson (NA 2005) Ana Sofía Guerra (NA 2014) Stephen C. Earley (NA 1978) Gregory G. Shellenbarger (NA 1989) Vibe Schourup-Kristensen (EU 2005) Elena Salim Haubold (EU 2014) Susan B. Schoen (NA 1979) Jamie L. King (NA 1989) Michelle Fetzer (NA 2006) Courtney Anne Rayes (AU 2014) John McClelland (NA 1979) Heather L. Dine (NA 1990) Delia Ní Chíobháin Enqvist (EU 2006) Michele A. Felberg (NA 2015) Charles R. Seaborn (NA 1979) Steven M. Barnett (NA 1990) Brenna Mahoney Rudd (NA 2007) Daniel J. Copeland (EU 2015) Stacey A. Tighe (NA 1980) Carol Enumi Lee (NA 1991) Igor Valente (EU 2007) Benjamin L. Buchan (AU 2015) Valerie J. Paul (NA 1980) Jessica F. Wheeler (NA 1991) Mathew Kertesz (AU 2007) Christopher K. Millbern (NA 2016) Theodore P. Janulis (NA 1981) R. James Sibthorp (NA 1992) Sterling J. Brisbin (NA 2008) Felix Butschek (EU 2016) Julie Johnson Prusak (NA 1982) Kenneth H. Broad (NA 1992) Eline J. Feenstra (EU 2008) Maya T. Santangelo (AU 2016) Benjamin L. Sheldon (NA 1982) Katharine P. Laing (NA 1993) Steven Lindfield (AU 2008) Leah M. Potts (NA 2017) Douglas E. Kesling (NA 1983) Giovanni Catalano (NA 1994) Myfanwy Rowlands Johnston (NA 2009) Mae KL Dorricott (EU 2017) Jennifer A. DiLorenzo (NA 1983) Giancarlo L. Cetrulo (NA 1995) Filip J. Wolski (EU 2009) Melinda Brown (AU 2017) Lisa Truitt (NA 1983) Craig L. Nelson (NA 1996) Matthew J. Carter (AU 2009) Yann Herrera Fuchs (NA 2018) Jay C. Moreland (NA 1984) Sara Shoemaker Lind (NA 1997) Joshua Stewart (NA 2010) Èric Jordà Molina (EU 2018) Sally Craig Nigg (NA 1984) Kirsten A. Bassion (NA 1998) Ingrid Rushfeldt Krüger-Stokke (EU 2010) Olivia J. Johnson (AU 2018)

26 27 The Interns

BAIZAROVA, Martina BURFEIND, Dana HELLMANN, Emily A. MICHALIK, Courtney PIERCY, Robert SPECTOR, Michael H. “Pike” European Young Underwater Divers Alert Network 2001 Divers Alert Network 2018 Bonnier Dive Group 2011 HydroOptix 2005 National Park Service 2015 Photographer Award CALVER, Tim HENDRICKS, Lisa MITCHELL, Catherine R. SPILLMAN, Shannon 2005 & 2006 PRUTZMAN, Steve National Geographic Society Mitigation Water Project AAUS 2015 REEF 2004 Sport Diver Magazine 2008 BARCHUS, Sarah Ford Fellow 2002 Dubuque IA 1995 MOBLEY, Kenyon SPLAIN, Ellen L. Bonnier Dive Group Media PUGSLEY, Andrew CALINI, Danielle HOWELL, Ruth NURC 1997 REEF 2013 2013 European Young Underwater REEF 2009 Darling Marine Center 2001 MOORE, Rebekah Photographer Award 2002 STRAW, Jessica BASSION, Kirsten COFFEY, Charles HOBAN, Mykle L. REEF 1996 ROACH, Stephanie F. Darling Marine Center 2005 REEF 1997 Divers Alert Network 2000 AAUS 2010 MULLANEY, Claire B. REEF 2008 TEPPER, Joseph BEECHAM, Dan CODALBU, Andrew JAFFEE, Adam REEF 2017 European Young Photographer European Young Underwater Sport Diver Magazine 2004 SAWICKI, Erika L. NURC 2001 Award 2011 Photographer Award 2004 MULLENS, Abigail Smigel AAUS 2017 COTTON, James Rodale Magazine 2001 JOSEPH, Mariclaire THOMPSON, Scott BENNETT, Andrew Divers Alert Network 2010 SCHEM, Jessica Divers Alert Network 2012 MYERS, Robert A. Divers Alert Network 2002 Blackbeard’s Cruises 2008 REEF 2014 COX, Schyler KITTREL, Casey Bonnier Dive Group 2015 THOMSON, Annie BENSON, Bridget Bonnier Dive Group Media 2014 Man-In-The-Sea 1997 SCHRAMM, Aurora MYHR, Molly AAUS 2012 U.S. Navy 2006 Aquarena 2010 FARRELL, Shane P. KOCHERGINA, Anna REEF 2001 BILLUPS, Brianne AAUS 2018 TYMON, Teresa European Young Underwater NESS, Jeremiah SHAGREN, Chad National Park Service 2010 AAUS 2013 FOOTE, Elizabeth Photographer Award 2008 Aquarena 2007 Sport Diver Magazine 2010 BLINICK, Naomi S. NURC 1998 VATLAND, Sarah KRZYSTAN, Andrea NEWCOMER, Katherine A. SHILLING, Eric National Park Service 2011 Darling Marine Center 2002 FUNDAKOWSKI, Garrett J. Divers Alert Network 2006 AAUS 2014 Lake Michigan WALKER, Jenna M. BLOCK, Lena B. National Park Service 2016 LANE, Claire E. Kitchin Biological Station 2000 NIELSON, Alec B. AAUS 2011 AAUS 2018 REEF 2011 GHANI, Aiyesha Bonnier Dive Group Media SHOELSON, Adam WATT, Alison BODENSTEIN, Dan REEF 2006 LEVINE, Ari 2012 Divers Alert Network 2008 Monterey Bay Aquarium 2012 U.S. Navy 2007 GIBEILY, Christopher Darling Marine Center 1998 NOONAN, Ronnie A. SIFRIT, Allie D. U. S. Navy 2008 REEF 2018 WHITE, Allison BONE, David LEV Y, Jessica AAUS 2016 NURC 1999 Aquarena 2008 GRAY, Jeff REEF 2012 NUTTAL, Marissa SKERRY, Brian BOWIE, Jacqueline NURC 1996 REEF 2007 WHITE, Timothy D. LYONS, Jennie Noll National Geographic Society REEF 2005 U.S. Navy 2004 National Park Service 2012 HACK, Nicole OLENYCH, Noah Ford Fellow 2001 COARE 2014 Mitigation Water Project 1995 BROGAN, Kate MASON, Julia WILLIAMS, Kristine SLAUGHTER, Sally Blackbeard’s Cruises 2009 HAJDUCZEK, Barbara National Park Service 2013 ORR, Andrew Divers Alert Network 2003 Darling Marine Center 2003 REEF 2002 Aquarena 2004 BROWN, Shannon D. MAXWELL, Henry WOLFE, Ronald SMALLEY-NORMAN, Yasmeen National Park Service 2018 HALL, Kara B. Divers Alert Network 2005 PATRYLAK, Ryan Lake Michigan REEF 2015 Divers Alert Network 2009 National Park Service 2014 Biological Station 1995 BRUNTON, Chase A. MAZILLE, Guillaume Bonnier Dive Group Media HARDY, Steve European Young Underwater PAYNE, Katy SMITH, Melissa J. WOLFE, Shaun S. 2017 Divers Alert Network 2004 Photographer Award 2003 Sport Diver Magazine 2005 Bonnier Dive Group 2016 National Park Service 2017

BURKHEAD-WEINER, Davita HARMAN, Leah McNALLY, Lucy PECK, Patrick M. SNOW, Ryan ZEIGLER, Erin REEF 2003 Darling Marine Center 2000 Sport Diver Magazine 2006 REEF 2016 NURC 2000 Divers Alert Network 2007

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CORPORATE COMMITTEES INTERNSHIP COMMITTEE SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE Vincent J. and Kelvin Murray Steven Lindfield BY-LAWS COMMITTEE Stephanie F. Roach, Chair Alison L. LaBonte, Ph.D. Margaret M. Malkoski Polar Coordinator Western Pacific Coordinator Steven M. Barnett, Chair VP – Internships Co-Chair, Coordination Northeast Regional Edinburgh, Scotland Palau, Micronesia Eugene, Oregon Washington, D.C. Coordinators Kerry J. Nickols, Ph.D. Peter Mesley Marion, Massachusetts Howard N. Painter, JP, FCA Susan C. Crowe Naomi S. Blinick Co-Chair, Selection UK Coordinator New Zealand Coordinator Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia NPS Internship Coordinator Capt. Spencer Slate European Accountant Auckland, New Zealand Walla Walla, Washington Florida Regional Coordinator Stephanie F. Roach Worcester, England Aengus B. Moran North America Key Largo, Florida Washington, D.C. Roberta A. Flanders Social Media Robin MacFadden Parish James R. Standing Woodridge, Illinois Robert L. Straight Sydney, NSW, Australia NOMINATING COMMITTEE VP, North American European Coordinator Gulf Coast Regional Howard N. Painter, Chair Mykle L. Hoban Operations Helston, Cornwall, England Karen Raubenheimer, Ph.D. Coordinator Worcester, England Honolulu, Hawaii Wheaton, Illinois Bellaire, Texas Joe Rees Stevens New South Wales, Sydney Coordinator Robin MacFadden Parish Claire E. Kitchin Lane Alison L. LaBonte, Ph.D. Bristol, Somerset, England Chris K. Millbern Sydney, NSW, Australia Wheaton, Illinois Indianapolis, Indiana Co-Chair, Coordination Project Specialist Berkeley, California Vincent J. Malkoski Katherine A. Newcomer (Cave Diving and Remote Australasia WEBSITE COMMITTEE AAUS Internship Coordinator Marion, Massachusetts Kerry J. Nickols, Ph.D. Sensing) E. Jayne Jenkins Edgewater, Maryland Co-Chair, Selection Palm Springs, California Howard N. Painter, JP, FCA STRATEGIC PLANNING VP, Australasian Operations Sherman Oaks, California Chair COMMITTEE Alec B. Nielson Sydney, NSW, Australia Worcester, England Vincent J. Malkoski, Chair Bonnier Internship Coordinator Julie S. Barber, Europe Liam Allen Marion, Massachusetts Orlando, Florida Ana S. Guerra, Webmaster Northwest Regional Elvin W. D. Leech, MBE Selection Goleta, California Karen Raubenheimer, Ph.D. Dana L. Polites Coordinator – USA VP, European Operations Sydney, NSW, Australia Anacortes, Washington Belfast, N. Ireland Sydney, Australia West Melbourne, Florida Anna Watson Hanson Stefan M. Andrews Jade Berman, Ph.D. Saunderstown, Rhode Island Howard N. Painter Debra M. Richardson John deBoeck South Australasian Assistant Coordinator Worcester, England Plainfield, Illinois Northwest Regional Coordinator Karl E. Huggins Coordinator – Canada Hillsborough, Co. Down, Martha L. Sanders Adelaide, SA, Australia Avalon, California OPERATING COMMITTEES Port Hardy, British Columbia N. Ireland Chicago, Illinois ALUMNI COMMITTEE Susan C. Crowe Alison L. LaBonte, Ph.D. Patrix Heschel Delia Ní Chíobháin Enqvist Stefanie Wells Misner, Chair Yasmeen N. Smalley-Norman Australasian Coordinator Berkeley, California Great Lakes Regional Selection Westminster, Maryland Oakland, California Port Macquarie, NSW, Coordinator Gothenburg, Sweden Aengus B. Moran Australia All Rolex Scholars and Interns Ellen L. Splain Sydney, NSW, Australia Oak Harbor, Ohio Lars Stenholt Kirkegaard REEF Internship Coordinator Mathew Kertesz FINANCE AND Karl E. Huggins Scandinavian Coordinator Karen Raubenheimer, Ph.D. Key Largo, Florida Pacific Coordinator AUDIT COMMITTEE Channel Islands Regional Abyhøj, Denmark Sydney, NSW, Australia Howard N. Painter, JP, FCA, Chair Jenna M. Walker Canberra, ACT, Australia Coordinator Carol Ann Leech Stephanie F. Roach Worcester, England Lead Internship Coordinator Project Specialist European Executive Cpt. Colin L. Kesteven Washington, D.C. Newport, Oregon Michael N. Emmerman, (Hyperbaric Medicine) Administrator Project Specialist BCFE FACFEI Timothy D. White Avalon, California Belfast, N. Ireland Sydney, NSW, Australia New York, New York Monterey, California Sara Shoemaker Lind Renè Lipmann Gina Lednyak Martha L. Sanders George W. Wozencraft California Regional Coordinator Benelux Coordinator Selection Chicago, Illinois Houston, Texas La Jolla, California Breda, Netherlands Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Michael Boo Executive Correspondence Chesterton, Indiana Michael N. Emmerman & Patricia A. Stockhausen New York Event Coordinators New York, New York Joseph C. Hoyt Maritime Archaeology Advisor Norfolk, Virginia Amy E. Malkoski Media Assistant Marion, Massachusetts Kimberly M. Malkoski Special Asst. to President Boston, Massachusetts Aengus B. Moran Social Media Sydney, NSW, Australia Craig L. Nelson, MD Medical Consultant Raleigh, North Carolina Jon Shaw Videography Sydney, NSW, Australia Leah Potts diving Captain Roberts’ Mine with Richard E. Somerset the Wisconsin Historical Society Diver Training and © Jon Janzen Education Advisor Bristol, England Maureen B. Sweeney “ THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE MY VARIOUS UNDERWATER Australian Sea Lions playing in the shallows. Project Specialist With Rodney Fox Shark Experience © Mae Dorricott Chicago, Illinois SKILLS AND COMBINE THEM TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DOCUMENTATION OF CAPTAIN ROBERTS’ MINE WAS LIFE CHANGING.”

THE SOCIETY’S 45th ANNUAL AWARDS PROGRAM WILL BE HELD APRIL 13, 2019 IN NEW YORK CITY. Leah Potts

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