Sarah Schooler spent a summer collecting data in the greater Bristol Bay watershed through the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences’ Alaska Salmon Program — the world’s longest-running effort to monitor salmon and their ecosystems.
Schooler came to the UW from Madison, Wisconsin, and as a freshman, declared majors in both environmental science and resource management (ESRM) and environmental studies at the UW College of the Environment. Her student experience included an internship at Seattle City Light, a quarter studying at Friday Harbor Laboratories, and backpacking workshops through Ecuador and Costa Rica.
But it wasn’t until she took a course with Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Professor Tom Quinn that she realized she wanted a future in fisheries, specifically.
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