Avery Coble

2025 Short-Term Workforce Fellow
Master of Science in Marine and Environmental Science,
December 2024

Avery Coble graduated from the Masters of Marine and Environmental Science program at the University of the Virgin Islands in 2024 with a specialization in coral diseases. Thereafter, she was awarded the 8-week Securing STEM Island Pathways Fellowship mentored by Dr. Marilyn Brandt.

Within the Brandt Lab, she will contribute to various projects focusing on coal disease-based fieldwork and continue previous research to publication. This work will include assisting with the long-term Acropora monitoring program encompassing all three U.S. Virgin Islands and continuing research on antibiotic treatment for corals, amongst other projects. In addition to conducting coral disease work, Avery will continue her parasitic and disease research samples obtained from a stranded and diseased Cuvier’s Beaked Whale. This work will ultimately be seen through to publication.

Avery plans to use the significant skills and networking opportunities fellowship provides to obtain a PhD candidacy.