MTS Proudly Announces Several MTS Summer Workshop Scholarships
MTS Proudly Announces Several MTS Summer Workshop Scholarships
For 10 years, the Marine Technology Society has partnered with Northwestern Michigan College and Rutgers University to offer the MTS Summer Workshops. The Workshops provide students with the opportunity to explore various technologies and deploy equipment for collecting data relevant to a variety of investigations.
This year, the Rutgers University Glider Technology Workshop was conducted from June 8 – 12 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Participants were introduced to underwater gliders while gaining hands on experience prepping, ballasting, deploying and piloting. This is an exciting opportunity for undergraduate students with little to no experience using this equipment as part of their courses or laboratories. The Marine Technology Glider Workshop is designed to offer students a chance to not only learn about underwater gliders, but also deploy the equipment to gather data applied to various investigations.
The Glider Workshop quickly filled up this year with participants from around the world including:
- Molly Frascella, Monmouth University
- Oliver Schrock, Northwestern Michigan College
- Tyler Inkley, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
- Hannah Elliott, Stockton University
- Danielle Schwartz, Boston University
- Keiley Gregory, University of the Virgin Islands
- Nathalia Castro, Federal University - Rio Grande (FURG)
- Will Sautter, Lynker Technologies
- Benjamin Carpenter, General Dynamics
- Robert Simmons Jr., Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO)
- Courtney Forde, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology
- Xinara Bascombe, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology
Six students (Molly, Oliver, Tyler, Hannah, Danielle, and Keiley) are all recipients of scholarships from the MTS Microcredentials initiative funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF OCE-2308556), and one student, Nathalia, was the recipient of a scholarship from MTS to attend the workshop. All of the workshop recipients were awarded the Foundational Glider Hardware and Piloting microcredentials.
The Northwestern Michigan College ROV and Sonar Workshop, June 15 – 19 in Traverse City, Michigan, offered participants a hands-on experience using multiple sonar and ROV marine systems. Participants logged time on a research vessel, and collected data using ROVs, sonars, and other sensors while learning multiple applications of these technologies. Participants were also able to try out R2Sonic’s Voxometer to perform a high-quality hydrographic survey.
The ROV and Sonar workshop is also at capacity with participants from around the country including:
- Jazmin Barajas, Pasadena City College
- Lindsay Myers Wentzel, East Carolina University
- Riley Smith, Oregon State University
- Lora-Mei Panepinto, Stockton University
- Ryan Luty, Stockton University
- Kaiqi Zhao, Stevens Institute of Technology
- Sophia Mora, University of South Florida
- Kyle Wendland, Eckerd College
- Rachael Riley, Cape Fear Community College
- Gabriela Pulla-Molina, University of South Carolina
- Matthew Frischman, Santa Barbara City College
All of the workshop participants were recipients of scholarships from the MTS Microcredentials initiative funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF OCE-2308556). All of the workshop recipients were awarded the Foundational ROV and Foundational Sonar microcredentials.
For more information or questions about the MTS Microcredentials initiative, please contact Liesl Hotaling ([email protected]).