{"id":1373,"date":"2009-03-12T08:28:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T16:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2009-03-12T08:28:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T16:28:56","slug":"featured-profile-mariah-boyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2009\/03\/12\/featured-profile-mariah-boyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Profile: Mariah Boyle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mariah Boyle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This week’s student spotlight is on Mariah Boyle,<\/a> a graduate student in the Ichthyology Lab.\u00a0\u00a0 Mariah is currently studying the feeding habits of the roughtail skate for her thesis.\u00a0 Check out her student profile <\/a>to discover how she got her start in marine science – with a father who manages a dive shop and a mom who teaches swim lessons, it’s a logical step! \u00a0 “Since they are both part fish, I was close to developing gills for a while as a kid,” Mariah writes of her parents.\u00a0 Some advice she has for people interesetd in marine science:<\/span> “While marine science may be a tough field, if it is what you truly love to do, stick with it. Too many people out there are not doing what they love for work.”\u00a0 Read more!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of jobs you love, Mariah has used her flexible grad-school schedule to\u00a0 take advantage of the kind of opprtunity most people only dream about:\u00a0 becoming part of <\/span>Tribewanted<\/a>, a unique, environmentally aware, cross-cultural community tourism project on Vorovoro Island, Fiji.<\/p>\n

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Mariah in Fiji<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By joining\u00a0 Tribewanted, she was given\u00a0 access to the online side of the project (voting rights and message forums on www.tribewanted.com<\/a>) and then could schedule a visit to the\u00a0 island for however many weeks she chose. The land is being leased by a British company, and in turn the Fijians get to share their culture and earn a good wage. The project has a low impact on the island – the drinking water is captured rainwater, the shower is a natural waterfall, the fish is speared right off the beach.<\/p>\n

Members of Tribewanted can be elected as chief for a month by posting a manifesto and being voted in by the other members online.\u00a0 As chief this summer, Mariah was in charge of the on-island operation for a month -making sure there is enough water, managing the budget, organizing trips to villages, and making sure everyone is having an amazing time.\u00a0 Mariah wrote a series of blog posts while serving as chief<\/a>, including topics such as marine safety, sharks and sustainable seafood.\u00a0\u00a0 Check back soon and we’ll post even more stories about her tropical adventures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s student spotlight is on Mariah Boyle, a graduate student in the Ichthyology Lab.\u00a0\u00a0 Mariah is currently studying the feeding habits of the roughtail skate for her thesis.\u00a0 Check out her student profile to discover how she got her start in marine science – with a father who manages a dive shop and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}