Monterey Bay: The Magazine of CSU Monterey Bay Fall/Winter 2013, Vol. VI, No. II | Page 7

S t u den ts

This year D.C, next
stop Hawaii?
Internship allows CSUMB junior Barber
to learn about the two sides of science

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orking in an office near Washington, D.C., over the summer, Tiffany Barber
made a critical discovery: She hated being cooped up indoors all day.
Barber, a junior marine science major from Los Angeles, is part of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Educational Partnership Program
for undergraduates. In addition to financial aid, the program provides summer
internships for students who major in fields related to NOAA’s mission.
Barber was assigned to the agency’s National Marine Fisheries Service in Silver
Spring, Maryland.
She worked in a cubicle in
one of the four buildings on the
I like field science. I like to be
NOAA campus. Her summer
project was to complete a
outside and actually collecting
literature review of accounts of
the research.”
killer whale attacks on marine
mammals worldwide.
At the end of her eightweek internship, she wrote a paper and made a presentation to a research
symposium.
Though she enjoyed the experience, she decided that working in a cubicle
wasn’t for her.
“Now I understa