As a program analyst in the ONMS Outreach and Education Division, I am a member of an amazing team of professionals. My duties range from collecting 28 weekly accomplishment reports from our sanctuary sites and headquarters and compiling them into a single document for the ONMS staff, NOS, and NOAA, to subtitling sanctuary videos and working with the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation in support of outreach activities. I’m also responsible for keeping Sanctuary Sam, our “spokes-sea lion,” alive, well, and out telling people about the beauty, and the importance, of national marine sanctuaries. Education is the key to ocean literacy.

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