{"id":2013,"date":"2021-09-15T19:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/?page_id=2013"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:28:16","slug":"imani-wilburn-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/imani-wilburn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Imani Wilburn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NOAA-EPP LMRCSC&nbsp;Masters Fellow<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><em>M.S., Microplastics<\/em><br><strong>University of Maryland Eastern Shore<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imani Wilburn earned her B.S. in Biology from Bowie State University, where she was also an undergraduate EPP\/MSI scholar with NOAA. In 2019, she began pursuing an M.S. in Fisheries Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Her thesis research focuses on the impact of microplastics on fish in the Maryland coastal bays and how to remove microplastics from the water. Upon graduation, Imani aspires to be a Marine Biologist and a professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/research-themes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Research Theme:<\/a><\/strong> Stock Assessment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NOAA LMRCSC Fellows attain the NOAA Core Competencies detailed in&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2024\/02\/NOAA-Core-competency-rubric.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this rubric<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>NERTO Project Title:&nbsp;<\/strong>Quantifying Microplastics in Maryland Coastal Bay Fish and Sediments<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>NOAA Mentor:&nbsp;<\/strong>Dr. Ashok Deshpande<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Academic Advisor:&nbsp;<\/strong>Dr. Maurice Crawford<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2022\/10\/LMRCSC-Logo100.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2022\/10\/LMRCSC-Logo100.png 100w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/101\/2022\/10\/LMRCSC-Logo100-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center<br>University of Maryland Eastern Shore (Lead Institution)<br>(410) 651-7870<br>Award numbers: FY 2021 Award #NA21SEC4810005<br>Funding Agency:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/office-education\/epp-msi\">NOAA Educational Partnership Program (EPP\/MSI)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOAA-EPP LMRCSC&nbsp;Masters Fellow&nbsp;M.S., MicroplasticsUniversity of Maryland Eastern Shore Imani Wilburn earned her B.S. in Biology from Bowie State University, where she was also an undergraduate EPP\/MSI scholar with NOAA. In 2019, she began pursuing an M.S. in Fisheries Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Her thesis research focuses on the impact of microplastics&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/imani-wilburn-2\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Imani Wilburn<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-2013","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}