Episode 11: Sailfish, SSTs and publishing your first paper with Meredith Pratt
Season 1, Episode 11
Breaking boundaries as an undergraduate student, Meredith is an fisheries research student at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, who had the opportunity to do her own research on sailfish and sea surface temperature. In this episode, we discuss Meredith’s paper, titled: Atlantic Sailfish (Istiophorus albicans) Distribution off the East Coast of Florida from 2003 to 2018 in Response to Sea Surface Temperature.
Introducing: Meredith Pratt
My name is Meredith and I’m currently a senior at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. I’m planning to head to graduate school to purse my love for fisheries and I’ve had the opportunity to participate in many awesome research opportunities! I’ve worked with billfish where my work has been published, have worked on fish ageing using otoliths as well as stomach content analysis, have done an albacore tuna satellite tag project, and am currently working on a new project with coastal birds and studying the efficacy of anti-parasite medicine! My goal is to provide research that makes fisheries more sustainable.
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