My name is Kyle Hebert. I just graduated from the California State University Maritime Academy as a Marine Transportation major with a minor in Marine Science and a US Coast Guard 3rd Mate unlimited tonnage license. While at Cal Maritime, I enjoyed blending my experiences as a deck cadet learning deck safety, cargo operations, and how to manuever vessels with scientific studies. Including optimizing a methodology to measure ammonium concentrations in the Carquinez Strait, maintaining a YSI 6600V2 Sonde in collaboration with San Francisco State University, and going out on research cruises with the R/V Questary throughout the San Francisco Estuary. I have found a passion collecting samples and working in the lab that has given me direction for my future. I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to work with the Rosential School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami onboard their research vessel, F.G. Walton Smith. I hope to be a helpful hand wherever I am needed and to soak up the knowledge and expertise required to be a well-rounded Marine Technician in the UNOLS Fleet. 