Knauss legislative fellowships in Congress help build careers — and they're fun and educational. See our video and fact sheet for details.
Zoraida P. Pérez Delgado is working as the Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator at NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. She will be working with a diverse portfolio touching on the themes of climate, oceans, weather, and coasts.
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Pérez Delgado obtained her bachelor’s degree in environmental science at the School of Science and Technology at Universidad Metropolitana in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She moved to the continental US to pursue an M.S. degree in the Marine Estuarine and Environmental Science Graduate Program at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) focusing on the area of paleoclimatology. For her thesis, she used coral geochemical records from the Atlantic, Indian, and the Pacific oceans to understand better how temperature and precipitation patterns changed after strong volcanic eruptions during the last 400 years.
During her graduate studies, she volunteered at her campus visitor center and participated in CBL’s annual Open House, engaging with the public and sharing the importance of her research. She was also the President of the American Association of University Women–CBL Chapter. The group discussed various topics of member interest, with diversity and cultural interactions in science as a recurring theme. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, dancing, working on DIY and interior design projects, and going to concerts.
Knauss legislative fellowships in Congress help build careers — and they're fun and educational. See our video and fact sheet for details.
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Smithville is a community on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, on the edge of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. A century ago, Smithville had more than 100 residents. Today, it has four, in two homes: an elderly couple, and one elderly woman and her son, who cares for her.
Oyster aquaculture is a rapidly growing industry in Maryland’s Chesapeake waters which stimulates economic activity and may provide a host of ecosystem benefits. A potential concern associated with the intensification of the oyster aquaculture is the local production and accumulation of oyster biodeposits, which can lead to a porewater sulfide accumulation and declining bioturbation, symptoms of declining ecosystem function. Sulfide is naturally removed from the seafloor by the interactions between bioturbating infauna and sulfide oxidizing bacteria.
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