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Goldwater Scholarship<\/a>, a very selective $7,500 award given to sophomores and juniors who obtain a 3.0 grade point average, plan to have careers in the natural sciences and present a rigorous application that includes an original research paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried to prepare them by telling them it was competitive and it might not happen,\u201d remembered Mark, a junior computer science and marine science student from Seattle. \u201cThey both freaked out when I told them I got it. They think it\u2019s amazing and that I made the right choice by coming to Eckerd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1989, the scholarship program honoring Senator Barry Goldwater is the preeminent undergraduate award of its type in the natural sciences. Goldwater Scholarship Campus Representative and <a href=\"\/marinescience\/faculty\/szelistowski\/\">Associate Professor of Biology and Marine Science William Szelistowski, Ph.D.<\/a>, said the Goldwater averages eight awards per state each year for students from all fields of science, engineering and mathematics. \u201cThis is a real feather in the cap of Mark, and of Eckerd&#8217;s science program,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in a coastal state, Mark has always been interested in marine life but hadn\u2019t found a specific area of study where he wanted to deepen his focus. 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He also joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/eckerd-receives-grant-to-reduce-plastics\/\">microplastics research<\/a> of <a href=\"\/marinescience\/faculty\/siuda\/\">Assistant Professor of Marine Science Amy Siuda, Ph.D<\/a>., and parlayed that experience into a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), where he spent his first collegiate summer at Oregon State University running population modeling for fish types off the coast of California to determine harvest patterns.<\/p>\n<p>That set Mark up nicely when it was time to apply for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/six-more-eckerd-students-awarded-noaa-hollings-scholarship\/\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Hollings Scholarship<\/a> in 2020. After netting that $9,500-a-year award for sophomores that includes an internship for the summer between junior and senior years, Mark did another REU where his computer science skills came in handy: studying energy occurrences in the Mediterranean. This summer, he\u2019ll take on his virtual Hollings internship in his hometown of Seattle, where he\u2019ll be collecting data from sail drones charting the atmospheric conditions of the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI plan to get my Ph.D. in computer science because it\u2019s much more flexible as far as career options. I want to use deep learning algorithms to simplify marine science data collection and processes,\u201d Mark explained. 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