. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. tklD By Pam Smith " It was a year to remember," Lise Knelson Fondren says of her year as a Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow in Washington, Fondren was a trailblazer. In 1985, she was the first of 30 graduate fellows sponsored to date by North Carolina Sea Grant. "It was, as they say, a learning experience. Politics up close and personal is very different from what most lay people believe," she says. "I got to know ; Now married with children, Fondren live
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. tklD By Pam Smith " It was a year to remember," Lise Knelson Fondren says of her year as a Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow in Washington, Fondren was a trailblazer. In 1985, she was the first of 30 graduate fellows sponsored to date by North Carolina Sea Grant. "It was, as they say, a learning experience. Politics up close and personal is very different from what most lay people believe," she says. "I got to know ; Now married with children, Fondren lives in Beaufort. Though her career moved away from marine issues, her dedication to rural health issues still touches the lives of many coastal families. As an East Carolina University sociology graduate student, Fondren was a quick study during her Knauss Fellowship days in then Rep. Barbara Boxer's congressional office. Drawing on her undergraduate background in zoology and marine studies, she worked with Boxer on the Royal Seal Commission. She responded to concerns regarding science and the environment. "It was heavy, full fare," she recalls. "I suppose I was flattered by Rep. Boxer's confidence in my ability to 'just handle it.' " Knauss Fellows are selected on the basis of their ability to share their scientific or marine policy expertise with policy makers in the nation's capital, says Sea Grant's coastal law and policy specialist Walter Clark, who monitors the fellowship program. On the flip side, he says, fellows get a first-hand look at how science is used in the. Kristen Long and David Canny, both Duke University graduate students, are the newest Knauss fellows from North Carolina. policy arena — and how decisions are made. Clark explains that the National Sea Grant Program has a goal of developing well-prepared professionals who understand the changing nature of science and research in marine and coastal issues. That's why, in 1979, the
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