YOUTH AND WATER RESOURCES AND AWRA

摘要

When did you first find your love of water? It seems that most of us in the water and natural resource fields developed a fondness for the outdoors early in our lives. For me, it was very early and centered around coastal marshes, tidal rivers, and bays and boats. I was lucky enough to grow up on the New Jersey shore in an era when it was fine for kids to roam their environs from sun up to sun down without a parent in sight! If I didn't get a case of poison sumac each summer from wandering around the marshes, there was something wrong. I was taken for my first boat ride when I was seven months old and I am still happiest when sailing. Luckily I share the love of the water with my husband, who I met when sailing at age 16.