Marisa is a sophomore Marine Biology concentrator studying at Brown University. Hailing from northern California, she has always loved the ocean and is excited to get the chance to study community dynamics in the Galapagos Islands during the summer of 2019. She has been scuba certified for three years, and cannot wait to get more dives under her belt! In the future, Marisa hopes to go to graduate school to study marine community ecology in order to further understand and protect our world’s precious underwater ecosystems.