Former SMEA students Caroline Potter, Luke Hiserman, Gregory Papp, Harshitha Viswanathan, and Leah Huff co-authored a recent publication in Frontiers in Education: “Student-led documentation of COVID-era education: A study of graduate programs on the human dimensions of oceans.

First and foremost, we would like to sincerely thank those students who participated in the study and we appreciate your insight about your graduate school experiences during COVID-19.

This study was an entirely student-led initiative and funded by the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center. The goal of the project was to capture the voices of students studying the human dimensions of oceans in order to learn what their experiences were during the pandemic, what was helpful to them, and how their experiences could have been improved. The project was intended to improve marine studies graduate programs to support those within them.

If you would like to learn more about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the experience of graduate school students, please see the linked article above!