Phoebe Galione, Environmental Science Major and Earth Science Minor
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Phoebe Galione is pursuing an Environmental Science Major and a Minor in Earth Science. From Kinnelon, New Jersey, her love for the environment and sustainability was sparked by wandering around (and sometimes in) the streams, lakes and woods around her home. During her time at Dickinson, her love for environmental science grew after joining the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) at the start of her sophomore year of which she has since been part. She was also a member of the Environmental Studies Majors Committee and took part in the Dickinson Arctic and Alpine Climate Research Experience (AACRE) in Iceland in the summer of 2019.
Phoebe has found her greatest inspiration and interest in science communication, changing the exclusivity in some scientific research to be more accessible to the public through various delivery applications. Although her biggest interest is in using art as a tool for sharing science (whether that be in paintings, storybooks, infographics, etc.), she has had the opportunity through ALLARM to work on making science accessible to its volunteers. Through teaching aquatic monitoring methods, and more recently, providing the data interpretation tools needed to determine the overall health of their watershed, local concerned citizens are given the information needed to take action.
ALLARM, Aquatics class at Dickinson, and her COVID-shortened semester in New Zealand where she studied marine science, have combined with past interests to strengthen Phoebe’s love for aquatic health - both freshwater and marine - an area where she hopes to take her career post-Dickinson College.