Knauss fellow to tackle fisheries issuesA URI graduate student is among 33 nationally who have been awarded a one-year, $38,000, National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. Rosemary Kosaka has traveled to Silver Spring, Md., to work in the federal government on fisheries policy, starting February 1, 2004. Kosaka, from Pacific Grove, Calif., is a master’s degree candidate in marine affairs and will be working in a new social sciences program at the National Marine Fisheries Service headquarters. The social science program seeks to better integrate social and cultural concerns into fisheries management, Kosaka says. “I was interested in the Knauss Fellowship because I saw it as a great opportunity to participate in fisheries policy-making at the federal level. My primary interests in fisheries are related to how social and cultural concerns influence and shape marine policy, for better or worse,” Kosaka says. The Knauss Fellowship, established in 1979, provides a unique educational experience to students with an interest in ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. The program matches highly qualified graduate students with hosts in the legislative branch, executive branch, or appropriate agencies/institutions located in the Washington, D.C., area. —Monica Allard Cox Related Links: Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship National Marine Fisheries Service
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