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Sarah currently calls Delaware home but
has roots in Florida. She holds a degree in wildlife conservation
and is weighing her graduate school options for marine and
molecular biology. Her scientific interests lean toward the
application of the advances of molecular biology and biotechnology
to the fields of marine science. She has worked in marine
biotechnology application projects, zebrafish, diatom and
plant genomics research and wetlands research.
Sarah has kept aquariums in some form since very early childhood,
starting with Spanky the goldfish, and thanks her parents
for their indulgence and support. With a marine engineer and
a former marine biologist for parents, her obsession with
the ocean was likely inevitable. Her freshwater aquaria interests
were mostly in Apistogramma and West African dwarf
cichlids and extensive freshwater planted systems. Her marine
days started in early college and eventually moved from reef
setups to marine planted and seagrass dominated aquaria. She
is an avid SCUBA diver who dreams of running her own live
aboard operation in Belize and hopes to one day become a professional
instructor.
She has interned and volunteered as an aquarist and husbandry
aide for several zoos and aquariums in the U.S. including
the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland. Sarah hopes
to join the research team of an aquarium or zoo, and work
as a curator, after completing her education. When she isn't
out parading as gator or shark bait, wading through seagrass
beds in the Indian River Lagoon and the Chesapeake, she is
often luring reefkeepers to 'the dark side' in the Marine
Plant & Macroalgae forum here on Reef Central.
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