Rebecca Guezel I'm from Paris, and I'm in San Diego until june, I took a year off after graduating from high school to come here. I didn't know what I wanted to study, I liked lots of things as English, Spanish, literature and oceanography. But in France I couldn't do all these because I needed to choose one, don't ask me why, it's the French system. So I came here and now I'm doing English, Spanish, marine biology and oceanography. Goals: After this semester, I think I will go back in France, the life here is too different for me. I wanted to continue marine biology in France but I just learned that I couldn't do it because I graduated from the literature field and not the scientific one in high school. Now, I don't know what can I do, I'd like to continue with the American system in France, it means maybe the American University of Paris. But Paris is not well located for the oceanography ! Hobbies: I love the ocean since I 'm little, I always used to go in vacation on the Atlantic coast and do bodyboard with my father. Here I have one but I didn't use it yet, I think the water is too cold and I don't want to buy a wetsuit ! I like a lot the turtles, I had two turtles when I was 6 and I'm going to ask my mother pictures of them because I don't have any pictures for the site ! Go and take a look on: www.surfreporter.com.br it a brazilian site but there are lots of good pictures of waves.		Julie Calvert I am a native to Southern California and have always had a love of the ocean. I was born and raised in Huntington Beach and was fortunate enough to have been brought up on the water: my family of five took numerous weekend voyages on our small 19-foot cabin cruiser to various coves of Catalina Island, and I spent many summer days loading up into the neighbor's VW bus with my best friend's family for fun-filled days at the beach. I am grateful for this early exposure to the ocean, and can't imagine not spending my life near an ocean. When I was in the eighth grade, my father finished his long project of building a 28-foot catamaran in our backyard, and thus began my sailing life! I grew to love the peacefulness of the wind and waves going to and from Catalina or just sailing Long Beach bay. And so much to see out in the vast Pacific! In the Fall of 1986 I began studying at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and my sophomore year joined the Sailing Team, which was my introduction to competitive sailing. The sailing and team were great, and we got to race in both Southern and Nortern California. I graduated from UCSB in 1990 with a B.A. in Germanic Studies (but, no, I am not of German heritage, and no, I don't want to teach it, which I often get asked!!). My junior year at college, I studied abroad in Germany, and shortly after graduation, I went back to Germany to continue travelling and to learn more German. Part of my travels led me to the Canary Islands from where I embarked on my first sailing trip across the Atlantic Ocean on a beautiful 61-foot boat. It was a nineteen-day voyage with a crew of nine and probably one of the best experiences of my life. Once in the Carribean, I stayed on to work aboard a charter trimaran in the Virgin Islands for five months, and then sailed on a different boat back across the Atlantic! This second trip was aboard an 80-foot Maxi sailboat, and we traveled via the Azores, Gibraltar, Mallorca, and finally the French Riviera. That was the summer of '92, and I wound up staying in Europe for another four years before moving back to California. I lived and worked in Berlin, Germany both waitressing and teaching English, but I finally decided I was ready to return to my Pacific coast! I moved here to San Diego in February 1996 and am still trying to figure out what I want to do for a career! Currently, I enjoy my work as a waitress at the Brigantine restaurant, and San Diego is a great place for sailing, so I'm often racing Snipes on the weekends on Mission Bay. This semester I am starting a Certificate Program in Environmental Studies at SDSU, in addition to taking this Marine Biology class, and I hope that perhaps in the future I can help save our planet and oceans from environmental destruction. Marine Biology links: http://facs.scripps.edu/surf/weather.shtml http://www.sdbaykeeper.org/ http://home.san.rr.com/marbio/marine%20mammals.html
Cynthia Marie Felipe I was born in Maryland. My mother is Japanese and my father is an american. We lived in Okinawa, Japan for sometime after I was born until I was 7 and we moved back to Maryland. Since then I have moved back and forth between the countries. I'm married (4 years this May) and have one child (girl) who is going to be 4 this June. My husband is in the navy and I don't work (well except for being a mother and going to school full time.) I love the ocean (even though I'm scared to death of swimming in it without equipment!) from the first time I saw it from Okinawa Island. The color there is so clear and colorful. And the sand is pale and white. The reef there is also fabulous, with a few damaged areas from the local military. And the problems the military causes for these reefs inspired me to learn about the ocean and what harm we do to it. I'm hoping with that information, I can help the ocean and it's wildlife when I do enter the navy. My hobbies: Reading (law fiction-John Grisham, horror-Stephin King, and simple short stories), playing computer/video games (RPG mostly), drawing (Japanese anime), learning computer software and applications, volleyball, bowling, swimming (scuba diving and swimming in the pool), playing with my daughter, and just going out to have fun (I love the outdoors.) My favorite poem: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. I have taken both roads but the harder one is the one worth more reward.		Rachel Zelenka My name is Rachel Zelenka. I was born and raised in a small town in South Dakota. I grew up along the Missouri River and Lewis and Clark Lake. I moved to San Diego with very little knowledge of the environment here and its creatures. I look forward to learning about the Ocean and the Earth and its wonderful processes. My Favorite Links: www.webreleaf.com At this site you can plant-a-tree and its free. www.therainforestsite.com At this one you can help save the rainforests. www.thehungersite.com At this one you can donate free food. Attached photos are of shell prehistoric fragments from the San Diego Area.

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