Hello friends! I am so incredibly honoured to have been chosen as the 2017 Australasian Rolex Scholar, of the Our World Underwater Scholarship Society (OWUSS). My name’s Mel, and l come from a little city on the east coast of Australia called Newcastle. I’ve got a small background in conservation and research, and you can […]

*Beep Beep* *Beep Beep* I wake up to the sound of my alarm. It’s 3:30am. Not your usual Sunday sleep in. Then again, I’m not in Kansas anymore (or at least fellow volunteer Andrew isn’t). I’m at the Bimini Biological Field Station, also known well around the world as the Shark Lab. What am I […]

Not all scholarship experiences are created equal. The beauty of the Rolex Scholarship is the variety of conditions and experiences you can find yourself in – from cage diving to freediving, crystal clear waters, tropics, waking up to icebergs, zero visibility, and even nowhere near the water at all. Today I’m going to share with […]

I recently left Australia for several months of international scholarship adventures. My first stop was a tiny island called Santa Maria in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean – a place that I honestly didn’t know existed until I started my scholarship. Santa Maria is one of nine volcanic islands that make up the mid-Atlantic […]