“Splash” Newsletter Sample

Bailey’s back at it again!

Hello Everyone! Boy am I tired… today I got to run around the Seacoast helping lead a group of Vapotherm employees through some “odd jobs” cleaning up the wonderful Center with my other intern Bailey buddy. (Fun fact, our Vapotherm helper had a last name Bailey, Bailey x3!)

I think that “odd jobs” are a really great summary of my time here this summer and I can’t wait to see how I transform them all to my resume. For instance, “shopped for pirate outfit” and “learned where Walmart is” will probably be transformed into “improved creative problem solving skills” and “strengthened terrain navigational abilities”.

As a rising senior at the University of New England, it’s that time where I have to think what useful skills I’m actually accumulating for the you-know-what (real-adult-world). Luckily though, with the Seacoast Science Center, I’ve also had the chance to explore real life policy and understand what it is someone like Laura does to keep a non-profit running (and she sure is right in saying she has one of the weirdest jobs). While I’ve definitely considered a future in non-profit management thanks to this summer, I also love resource management and all the weird laws and regulations around it.

I mean, did you know that when a plane hits a bird and falls out of the sky into the ocean, the plane is not a boat? There’s an actual court case that had to define that before sending the actual case to court because they didn’t know whose jurisdiction an unrelated boat accident under! Or that state coastal zones, typically defined extending 3 nautical miles from shore, were first decided because that’s how far a cannon ball could be shot off shore in self defense?

Luckily, in our own environmental self defense, in response to the Exxon Oil Spill of 1989 we created the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to hold parties involved responsible in the event of an oil spill. As the nature lovers we all are, since we share our love of the Seacoast Science Center, we should be thrilled this kind of law exists! … But also a little weary that since then, major oil spills have continued happening and no new laws created. Cue up my theme song, because this is where I hope to come in! Working in marine resource management, hopefully I can help influence our nation’s priorities and policies to get the best use of our resources in a sustainable and safe manner that protects existing ecosystems!

On that note, I hope that you learned something new today about the weird world of marine policy that fascinates me! Majoring in Ocean Studies and Marine Affairs really does expose you to an odd ball group of information, so this summer of odd jobs has really been a perfect fit! Perhaps “odd jobs” be my one liner for my resume after all!

Diving into another odd day,

Bailey

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