What is your favorite thing about working in fisheries?
“Data to information, information to action” has been a guiding maxim in my career.
Category: Voices
You’ve just started a new field position. Excited, you step on the boat and head out for a full day of sampling. You look around the small boat and suddenly it hits you: where will you pee?? You realize that you are the only woman on the boat. Do you […]
“Not failure, but low aim is a crime.” –Roger Arlinger Young
A few months ago, we began a monthly blog post series to highlight women in fisheries and their research. Women sometimes have a hard time tooting their own horns, so we’re here to toot them for you! The fisheries field is diverse, encompassing everything from policy to research, but each […]
My very first research project was an epic, total failure. As in, pretty much no data, no findings, absolutely nothing to show for it. I won’t bog you down with details about the project, but long story short it centered on trapping invasive rats on an island to look at […]
“Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.”
– Rita Levi-Montalcini
So here’s the thing: as a woman in fisheries, it can be super hard to navigate clothing, and we’ve had MANY conversations about it in our Facebook group. One of the very first and most popular discussions we’ve had was centered on this question: what does it look like to […]
“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
― Rachel Carson
Welcome to the first of our new blog series Discussion Highlights! Over the past few years we’ve had some great discussions and advice shared on our Facebook group. On the third Monday of each month, we will summarize one of the topic discussions here. This week, we tackle that sneaky […]
At the beginning of 2020, the Women of Fisheries Book Club started reading “Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science – and the World” by Rachel Swaby. Each week, we post a picture of each woman and a brief summary so that members can put a face to the story and […]