Katie Geddes is working in the Office of International Activities of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Geddes, who grew up in Solomons, Maryland, earned a master's degree in environmental anthropology from the University of Maryland at College Park and is passionate about helping those disproportionally affected by climate change. She discovered her interest in policy as an intern at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Aimee Hoover is serving in the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) Office of Science and Technology. She is part of the National Observer Program, working on the National Bycatch Report Update and hoping to improve the work environment for fisheries observers.

Hoover is completing work at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) Chesapeake Biological Laboratory for a master's degree in fisheries science from the Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences (MEES) graduate program jointly administered by UMCES and the University of Maryland at College Park. She is studying the movement of Costa Rican sea turtles with the goal of improving management and conservation of these endangered species.

She helped develop online tools to reduce the unwanted catch of leatherback turtles in the Hawaiian longline fishery and prevent ship strikes of blue whales off the California coast.

Rebecca Peters is the fisheries habitat and ecosystem science coordinator in NOAA's NMFS Office of Science and Technology. Her focus includes learning how habitat science is incorporated into ecosystem-based fisheries management.

Peters completed her M.S. degree in the MEES graduate program at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Her thesis focused on delineating essential fish habitat for juvenile black sea bass in the Maryland coastal bays.

She interned with the National Marine Fisheries Service's Shark Population Assessment Group in Panama City, Florida.

Stephen Gray Redding is a fisheries management specialist with NOAA's Highly Migratory Species Division. He is collaborating with stakeholders and decision makers to ensure sustainable management of valuable and complex fish populations.

As an undergraduate and later a research technician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gray worked on projects studying the response of oyster reefs and other coastal habitats to a changing world.

As a master's student in fisheries science at the UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, while enrolled in the UMCES-College Park MEES graduate program, Redding used chemical techniques to study the movement and migration patterns of juvenile Atlantic mackerel, work that may improve management of the species.

Yini Shangguan is the inaugural Knauss fellow with the Office of Water's Nutrient Team at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She will work with scientists and policymakers to better understand the overall condition of estuarine, near-coastal, and coral reef environments.

Shangguan received her Ph.D. degree from the UMCES-College Park MEES graduate program while studying at the UMCES Horn Point Laboratory. For her dissertation research, she participated in a project to evaluate the impact of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan on freshwater discharge, nutrient loading, and algal blooms in Florida Bay.

Originally from China, Shangguan hopes that working at the EPA will allow her to gain practical experience in environmental management and more opportunities for communication with the public.