{"id":802,"date":"2022-05-13T10:28:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T10:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/?p=802"},"modified":"2022-05-19T19:40:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T19:40:22","slug":"meet-the-team-alejandra-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/meet-the-team-alejandra-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Team: Alejandra Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #cc0033\">Alejandra Martinez<\/span><\/h1>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #cc0033\">On-Board Educator<\/span><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-859\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-859\" style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-5.39.58-PM-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-5.39.58-PM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-5.39.58-PM-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-5.39.58-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-5.39.58-PM-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-5.39.58-PM.png 1070w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ms. Alejandra Martinez with her teaching assistant, SloMo the Sloth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miss Alejandra Martinez earned her Bachelor of Science degree at Texas A&amp;M University, and continued her studies to earn her Master of Arts degree at Sul Ross State University. Alejandra grew\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">up as an identical twin, which made for quite an interesting childhood! Miss Martinez stays in touch with her childhood by teaching at the junior high school that she and her twin attended. Alejandra hopes to inspire kids in her community to love science as much as <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">she does.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0033\"><strong>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-858\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-858 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/IMG-4281-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/IMG-4281-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/IMG-4281-1004x1024.jpg 1004w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/IMG-4281-768x783.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/IMG-4281.jpg 1119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SloMo the Sloth front of some of the various learning materials used in the classroom and in the team&#8217;s YouTube videos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mrs. Martinez\u2019s goal as a PUFINS On-Board Educator is to awaken her inner scientist and explorer. She is excited to encourage her students and community to do the same! Miss Martinez is quite familiar with researching at sea\u2013she spent time as a Science Communication Fellow aboard the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">E\/V Nautilus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and also served as the Education Outreach Officer aboard the deep sea drill ship, the J<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OIDES Resolution<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Alejandra\u2019s past experiences at sea will prove useful on the PUFINS cruise, where she can share her knowledge with other members aboard the ship!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0033\"><strong>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-860\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-860 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-5.40.14-PM-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-5.40.14-PM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-5.40.14-PM-1020x1024.png 1020w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-5.40.14-PM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-5.40.14-PM-768x771.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/791\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-13-at-5.40.14-PM.png 1098w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ms. Martinez and SloMo in the tundra.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alejandra\u2019s most exciting field moment took place in Point Barrow, Alaska where she worked with scientists in the Arctic on a 2019 PolarTREC expedition. Her research with PolarTREC involved observing the changes in the environment in Northern Alaska as a result of warming experiments that modeled the impacts of vegetation on surrounding areas. She even got the chance to ride an ATV to and from the field site each day. For more details, click <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3BevC3sOsZc&amp;list=PLHcF18Z9lq-NeFnzTT-w7B9RdI_YDIQj3&amp;index=10\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">HERE<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to see Mrs. Martinez\u2019s YouTube video documenting her experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandra Martinez On-Board Educator &nbsp; Miss Alejandra Martinez earned her Bachelor of Science degree at Texas A&amp;M University, and continued her studies to earn her Master of Arts degree at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/pufins-at-sea\/meet-the-team-alejandra-martinez\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meet-the-team","category-updates-from-sea"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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