Hello fellow marine biologists, My name is Jessica Petereit and i am currently EMBC+ Student ( Master of marine biodiversity and conservation) at the University of Algarve (Portugal). I am 23 years old and did my bachelor thesis in Bremen (Germany) with the tropical center for marine ecology (ZMT). Where i worked with respiration experiments on clownfish (A. frenatus). I am very interested in the ecology and conservation of sharks and would like to ask you if one of you have a hint for me where to do my master thesis with sharks. I already did an internship on the Bahamas with shark- human interactions and furthermore a volunteering month in south africa where i was doing underwater surveys. While i studied biology, with a specialization in marine biology, i worked 3 years in the center for tropical marine ecology and was responsible for different kind of tasks. For example the breeding of clownfish, taking bloodsamples, maintenance of the aquaria tanks, coral reproduction (asexual and sexual), sea cucumber measurements and analysis of fatty acids. In the meantime i worked as well as assistant instructor in the local diving center and did my GUE fundamental diver recently in october 2016 and i am going to do my scientific diver next month. Furthermore i did an internship with coral restoration on curacao and worked in the Alfred Wegner institute for polar and marine sciences (AWI). My main focus for the future will be on conservation and ecology and therefore i would like to do my thesis around this topic. I am a fast learning student and a hard worker. I am very ambitous and eager and do not shy away from physical work and i realy hope that i can get a chance to gain more knowledge and experience during my Master Thesis. The thesis would start in January 2018 and i need to be finished by June 2018.
Thank you very much for all your help and hints and i wish you all a very good start in 2017 :) King regards Jessica
