Nadya Gutierrez

Nadya Gutierrez

United States

Nadya Gutierrez graduated from Georgia College & State University with a B.S. in Environmental Sciences. During this time she was awarded the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship where she received a financial reward and internship to work with NOAA. During this internship, she studied marsh crab community composition. Upon graduation from GCSU, she worked at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab for a year where she studied costal ecology in seagrass and salt marsh ecosystems. She is now obtaining her PhD in Earth and Marine Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill based out of the Institute of Marine Sciences. Her dissertation is focused around landscape ecology of seagrass meadows, specifically regarding how water flows through fragmented seagrass meadows.