CMIL Summer Research Program 2023

The CMIL Summer Research Program has just finished a successful third year! Our program provides marine science research experiences for San Diego community college students by matching them with a graduate student mentor at SDSU’s Coastal and Marine Institute...

Ka Mwee Paw’s Intern Blog

Hello, my name is Ka Mwee Paw and I am a refugee from Mae La Oon. Mae La Oon is a refugee camp located between the border of Thailand and Myanmar (previously known as Burma). I am currently a third-year Biology major student studying at San Diego City College and San...

Grace Luzbetak’s Intern Blog

Before this summer, I had never spent a full day in a professional lab. But I knew I was passionate about science and wanted to learn more about marine biology. For most of the time, I worked with Jessica Griffin on an experiment for her Ph.D. titled “The Importance...

Angel Sanchez’s Intern Blog

My goal when looking for opportunities this past summer was to find an internship that gave me as much hands-on experience as possible in an ecology lab. Working in the Coastal and Marine Science Institute Laboratory (CMIL) this past summer gave me that and more. I...

Shayne Brown’s Intern Blog

Swimming! Freediving! Kayaking! Boat Trips! ….These are all fun activities, especially in the summertime. Ocean warming. Ocean acidification. Invasive species. ….These are all very bad things. Bad things that are caused almost exclusively by humans. And as humans we...