Lucia Gil
MPS Intern
Marine Biology & Ecology
Lucia was born in Costa Rica and grew up in South Florida, where exploring the coast was a part of life. She pursued her undergraduate degree at Florida State University in Biology with a minor in Chemistry. She assisted with various research projects at the FSU Coastal Marine Lab and her senior project focused on developing a protocol for non-invasive in-situ photogrammetric techniques used to measuring coral growth over time. She also volunteered at FSU’s Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences department in Dr. Sven Kranz’s Lab, assisting with ocean acidification research that investigated the photosynthetic efficiency of dinoflagellate Karenia brevis when acclimated to increasing levels of CO2. During her degree, Lucia also worked at an outreach education program, Sea-to-See, bringing marine science to schools around the county. She later received a National Science Foundation Noyce-SOAR Grant to develop a curriculum that brought interactive lessons on Plastics in the Ocean to schools across the county.
Upon graduation she worked as a yacht stewardess in the Bahamas while applying to graduate school and developed skills such as diving, media communication, graphic design, videography, multi-media art, and music writing. Once at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, her focus was coral restoration in Dr. Diego Lirman’s coral restoration lab and the Coral Reef Futures Lab’s on-land nursery at the Experimental Hatchery. She is currently the communications, social media, and outreach intern for the Coral Reef Futures Lab and is creating a project centered on spreading education about the state of Florida’s coral and the restoration efforts carried out by the Coral Reef Futures Lab while managing the social media platforms and website of the lab. She hopes to use this opportunity to develop her science communication, education, marketing, and design skills while continuing to document, spread awareness, and educate about Florida’s coral reefs.
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