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Insights from NOAA’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Management Dr. Holly A.

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To start, can you share with the readers of MTR how you What drew you to government, or more speci? cally, became involved in your chosen ? eld? NOAA? It’s funny because I come from a small town in Penn- After coming out of academia, you are really sylvania and as a kid we’d go to the shore. Growing up, my groomed to stay in the academic institutions. I’m published, father had a family business, so when I went off to college I was a basic researcher, and I wanted to go into the federal

I went into business. But when you get to college, you are sector – particularly NOAA – to really learn about the mis- exposed to a lot of things, and I came to