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Semester at Skidaway Alumni Spotlight: Dillon Doomstorm

A person in a light blue shirt and wide-brimmed hat works in a grassy field with a drone resting on a black case in the background under a clear blue sky. — ***^{Dillon Doomstorm using drones to survey the salt marshes of Sapelo Island. (Photo by Jimmy Nelson)}***

Dillon Doomstorm, who participated in the UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography’s (SkIO) Semester at Skidaway program in fall 2022, is now a graduate student at Hampton University in the Department of Environmental Science under Joseph Reustle as a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center (LMRCSC) fellow.

Doomstorm, who grew up in Smyrna, Georgia, received a bachelor’s degree in ocean science from the Department of Marine Sciences at UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and a minor in ecology from UGA’s Odum School of Ecology in May 2022. After graduating, Doomstorm participated in a National Science Foundation (NSF) postbaccalaureate research program, working with Amanda Spivak, a professor in the UGA Department of Marine Sciences. He then worked as a field technician in UGA Department of Marine Sciences assistant professor Jimmy Nelson’s lab.

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