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Jessica Harrop

Jessica Harrop

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Ms. Harrop graduated from Princeton University in the spring of 2008 with a bachelor's degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a Certificate in Theater and Dance. Her senior thesis on the behavior and body patterns of the oceanic squid Illex illecebrosus has been submitted for formal journal publication. In the summer after her freshman year at Princeton she worked as a research assistant mapping floodplains in Maryland. The following summer, she worked at the Bermuda Institute of Oceanic Sciences, and during the spring semester of her junior year she studied tropical ecology at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

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