Gina Lonati’s first brush with marine life came early. When she was five years old, her family took her to Sea World in California, where she came face to face with a dolphin — and knew immediately that she had just glimpsed her future.
“I still have the photo that my family took, of me looking at the dolphin for the first time and just being so captivated,” Lonati said. “I was just thrilled, and knew I wanted to work with marine mammals as a career.”
Years later, she is doing just that.
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Lonati, now a PhD student at the University of New
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