Meet Cohort 2024’s Environmental Scientists! (2/2) Nadya Gutierrez is obtaining her PhD in Earth and Marine Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill based out of the Institute of Marine Sciences. Her dissertation is focused around landscape ecology of seagrass meadows, specifically regarding how water flows through fragmented seagrass meadows. As an undergraduate, she was awarded the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship where she received a financial reward and internship to work with NOAA. During this internship, she studied marsh crab community composition. Gwendolyn Chow is a marine conservationist with diverse experiences who believes in developing people-centric solutions to coastal challenges. Currently, she manages conservation projects locally and regionally across the Coral Triangle for WWF-Singapore’s Oceans Program. By pursuing her Master’s in Coastal Science and Policy, Gwendolyn aims to enhance her interdisciplinary knowledge and advance inclusive conservation approaches that benefit both ecosystem biodiversity and coastal communities in Southeast Asia, all while building climate resilience. Stanley Tan is an environmental scientist pursuing his PhD at Yale University and the New York Botanical Garden, where he is also a recipient of the Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship. Through his research, he strives to illuminate the impacts of anthropogenic activities and environmental policies on the health and ecosystem services of tropical forests. #QuadFellow #QuadbyIIE #QuadFellowship