User:Magpynaut/Jasmin Graham

Jasmin Graham is a marine scientist and founder of Minorities in Shark Science (MISS). She specializes in elasmobranch ecology. She is a member of the American Elasmobranch Society and serves on their Student Advisory Committee

Education and early life
Graham has an undergraduate degree in marine biology and Spanish from the College of Charleston, and a masters degree in biology from Florida State University as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. In graduate school, she studied the movement of smalltooth sawfis h, and their increased exposure risk to marine fisheries. Her parents were deeply involved in activism and Black history, and her father was involved with the NAACP. Her interest in marine biology was sparked by MarineQuest, a science camp for children.

Career
Graham is CEO and President of MISS, which hosts workshops and provides mentorship for undergraduate female students of color interested in shark sciences. She has worked with MarSci-LACE at MOTE as a grant project manager, studying best practices for recruiting and retaining minorities in marine science. Her research uses satellite and acoustic telemetry to track the movements of adult and large juvenile smalltooth sawfish in the United States to identify critical habitats and areas of high concentration of sawfish in order to better manage the species. Her previous work at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center focussed on ocean acidification.