I'm studying Marine Biology at UCSD, gaining a scientific background that I intend to apply towards the reformation of business and government practices and policies that are detrimental to marine ecosystems, as well as the invention and implementation of restorative programs. As oceanographer Sylvia Earle (my hero) frequently remarks, “No blue, no green!” My current research in the lab addresses the mechanism which the shrimp species Palaemonetes paludosas uses in order to keep its figure translucent. The methods I find successful in experimenting on the shrimp will then be transferred to studying the same mechanism found in the glass catfish species, Kryptopterus vitreolus.