Semester at Skidaway Alumni Spotlight: Ava Meier

Meier holding marine vegetation on the deck of the R/V Sikuliaq.
Meier recently returned from a month-long cruise on board the R/V Sikuliaq. (Photo by Seth Danielson.)

Ava Meier, who participated in the UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography’s (SkIO) Semester at Skidaway program in fall 2022 and received a bachelor’s degree in ocean science from UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Marine Sciences in 2023, is now pursuing her master’s degree at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.

Meier, a Conyers, Georgia, native, was recently listed as a co-author on a new manuscript published in JGR-Oceans titled “Drivers of Spatiotemporal Distributions of Macro- and Micronutrients (Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn) in the Northern Gulf of Alaska.” She studies physical oceanography.

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