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Stories of Science—Tracy Commock
Stories of Science—Tracy Commock

For the last two weeks, we have had a very special visitor at FIU and FTBG, Tracy Commock, Director of the Natural History Museum of Jamaica. I met Tracy, a fellow botanist, in 2014 and she has since become a great colleague and friend. Tracy has been paramount in developing a collaboration between UWI and FIU through an inter-institutional official agreement already in place between these two universities. I took her out for ice cream and we chatted about life as a botanist in Jamaica.

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Botany, DNA, Conservation, Graduate School, Education, RecyclingNichole TiernanJamaica, Education, Museum, Botany, Conservation, UWI, FIU
New Years Resolution: Conscious Consumerism
New Years Resolution: Conscious Consumerism

I’ve become more aware of my plastic consumption after a recent trash pickup hosted by Debris Free Oceans and decided that this year’s New Year Resolution will be to be more actively conscious of the plastic that I consume. Though I’m spending the holidays in the snow in New York on the Canadian border where I grew up, living in Miami for the last few years, marine debris hits me particularly close to home.

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Conservation, Sustainability, Conscious Consumerism, Recycling, UpcycleNichole Tiernanplastic, sustainability, consumerism, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, marine debris, upcycle, recycle