Class of 1994

SONYA DYHRMAN comes in from the cold.

After participating in the Spanish Language Study Abroad program in Spain and the biology Foreign Study Program in Jamaica and Costa Rica as an undergrad, Dyhrman has continued to treat the world as her classroom. A biologist at the Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Oceanographic Institute, she recently spent more than a month at McMurdo Station in Antarctica teaching a course on Antarctic biology as part of an international graduate training program funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Dyhrman taught integrative biology and adaptation in Antarctica and worked with organisms as diverse as fish and phytoplankton. Dyhrman describes Antarctica as "the science continent." McMurdo Station serves as a nexus for a plethora of research endeavors ranging from global climate change and the hole in the ozone layer to the ecology of penguins.