Ann
Marie Hulver was born in Chicago, IL but moved to the Eastern Province of Saudi
Arabia when she was four years old. Throughout her entire life she has always
enjoyed living near the Arabian Gulf and has been fascinated by all of the
animals inhabiting the oceans of the world. For her undergraduate degree, Ann
Marie studied Marine Biology at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Throughout
her studies she participated in the Three Seas Program - an intensive, year-long
program that focuses on three different ecosystems: the rocky intertidal in
Boston; coral reefs in Bocas del Toro, Panama; and kelp forests
in Friday Harbor, Washington. From this experience she met many
professors from Northeastern and universities worldwide.
After
Three Seas, Ann Marie began an Honors Thesis project with Dr. Mark Patterson at
Northeastern University's Marine Science Center. She built a diver operated profiling
device to measure fine scale fluctuations of dissolved oxygen above ecosystems.
She once again travelled to Panama in order to continue this research on coral
reefs. During this time, Ann Marie was applying to KAUST. Her interests at
KAUST are to study the connectivity of the Red Sea with the surrounding coral
reef ecosystems.