NOAA Northern Gulf Institute Diversity Internship Program In summary… 2008-2014: 64 students 2008-2014: 24 males, 40 females 2008-2014: 35 undergraduates 23 Masters 6 PhD candidates Ethnic diversity… Black / African American Asian Hispanic White American Indian 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 TOTAL 23 19 2 10 10 Diversity in internship locations 1 Mississippi State University (Geosystems Research Institute, Agricultural Economics, Engineering) (2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) 2 University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) 3 Jackson State University (2008) 4 Alcorn State University, MS (2013, 2014) 5 National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS (2010) 6 National Marine Fisheries Service - Southeast Fisheries Science Center, MS (2009, 2010, 2011, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) 7 Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (2009, 2010) 8 Dauphin Island Sea Lab, AL (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014) 9 Louisiana 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 Florida State University - Coastal & Marine Laboratory (2009, 2010) 14 Harte Research Institute, TX (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) 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) 1 Jackson State University, MS (2008, 2010) 2 Mississippi State University (2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) 3 University of Southern Mississippi (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) Diversity 4 University of Mississippi (2010) 5 University of South Alabama (2009, 2012, 2013) 6 Tuskegee University (2012) in home 7 Troy University (2011) 8 Auburn University (2010) 9 Texas A&M Univ. Corpus Christi (2012) institution 10 Louisiana State University (2010) 11 University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2010) 12 University of New Orleans (2010, 2012) 13 Southern University of New Orleans (2012) 14 University of Florida (2013, 2014) 15 Florida State University (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) 1 Rex Caffey (2010) 2 Just Cebrian (2012) 3 Eric Chassignet (2009) 4 Suzanne Van Cooten (2012) 5 Lynne Cossman (2009) 6 Andre Debose (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014) Thanks to 7 Jairo Diaz (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014) 8 Kelly Dorgan (2014) 9 James Gibeaut (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) our mentors! 10 Monty Graham (2012) 11 Joe Griffitt (2010, 2012) 12 Laodong Guo (2011) 13 Frank Hernandez (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014) 14 Steve Howden (2009) 15 Matt Interis (2012) 16 Dubravko Justic (2010) 17 Neal Kaske (2011) 18 Roy Kron (2009) 19 Steven Lohrenz (2009) 20 Melanie Morris (2010) 21 Steve Morton (2010) 22 James Nienow (2013, 2014) 23 Alice Ortmann (2014) 24 Tim Osborn (2010, 2012) 25 Daniel Petrolia (2011, 2012, 2013) 26 John Ramirez-Avila (2012, 2013, 2014) 27 Dave Reed (2010, 2011) 28 Alan Shiller (2013) 29 Richard Snyder (2014) 30 Chris Stallings (2010) 31 Chung-Chu Teng (2010) 32 Robert Twilley (2009) 33 John Valentine (2009) A big thanks to Russ Beard who has been the biggest supporter of this program since its inception. .