{"id":331,"date":"2019-10-08T14:16:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/?page_id=331"},"modified":"2019-10-08T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:33:09","slug":"victoria-watson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/?page_id=331","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>M.E.S. Candidate, 2019-2021<strong><br> <br> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/victoria-watson-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-339\" srcset=\"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/victoria-watson-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/victoria-watson-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/victoria-watson-1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/victoria-watson-1.jpg 2028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Victoria\nis currently in the Master\u2019s in Environmental Studies (MES) program. Her thesis\nexamines the sustainability of freshwater ecosystems on the famous Sable Island,\nknown for its wild horses and largest colony of breeding seals in the world.\nWith the help of various donors and the Marine Environmental Observation\nPrediction and Response Network, Victoria was able to kickoff her studies with\ntwo successful field excursions in July and August, 2019. She hopes that her\nproject will, \u201ccontribute to an understanding of Sable Island and lead to\nimproved protection of this vulnerable, unique ecosystem\u201d. Her next steps are\nto learn methods in Paleolimnology, which uses a range of indicators to look\ninto past environmental conditions. On her first year classes so far, \u201cI really\nlike that it sets you up in preparation for your research project.\u201d&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On coming to Dalhousie University<br>\n<br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after receiving her B.Sc Hons from\nthe University of Guelph in Environmental Sciences, Victoria decided to\ncontinue pursuing research on the east coast. \u201cI realized that a master\u2019s\ndegree is the perfect opportunity to go live somewhere else temporarily and figure\nout what I want to do. I\u2019ve also never lived near the ocean and I wanted to\nexperience that\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On future goals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Victoria-watson-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Victoria-watson-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Victoria-watson-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Victoria-watson-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Victoria-watson.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\nAs for what Victoria\nhopes to do in the future, she is flexible with what she ends up doing, \u201cDepending\non where I end up settling, I would want to work with freshwater or marine\nenvironments on the coast whether it be freshwater resources from the\nhuman-perspective or biodiversity. I\u2019m very open to the different opportunities\nthat this program will provide me with.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.E.S. Candidate, 2019-2021 Victoria is currently in the Master\u2019s in Environmental Studies (MES) program. Her thesis examines the sustainability of freshwater ecosystems on the famous Sable Island, known for its wild horses and largest colony of breeding seals in the world. With the help of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/?page_id=331\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Victoria Watson<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/331\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}