Alex Rose holds a B.S. in biology, an M.S. in aquatic biology, and has been diving since 2006. As a result of her WDHOF grant, she was able to purchase a DSLR camera and become a PADI Divemaster. Since 2011, she has traveled many places with her camera underwater including but not limited to the Philippines, Galapagos, Palau, and Guadalupe Island. Alex is currently working as the Science Editor and a contributing writer for Ocean Geographic Magazine. In addition to developing her career as a free-lance science writer and editor, she is in the process of writing a book about clownfish. It is a compilation of six fact-based, fictional narratives collectively telling the story of our ocean world from the perspective of clownfish. She is also a professional violinist, breeds Percula clownfish, and is a volunteer diver in the “Caribbean Reef” at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium. Alex will be participating in Ocean Geographic Society’s 2015 Elysium Artists for the Arctic Expedition, where she will be acting as a photojournalist both on land and underwater, and will use her violin to capture the essence of the voyage through her music in collaboration with composer Eric Bettens. Her driving goal is to find ways to protect our world’s precious marine habitats through diving, writing, education, and research, and is grateful to have the opportunity to do this every day. None of this would have been possible without the invaluable connections facilitated by the gracious WDHOF community.