The following is an excerpt from a  published by the Climate Commitment:

鈥淚 love marine invertebrates so much. They are just so cool and interesting. And I just want other people to love them too.鈥 

Clearly, it is difficult to overstate how passionate Juliet Wong is about her work and her research as part of the Duke Marine Lab. The love of the ocean and its creatures started early for her.

鈥淢y father is a retired family practice doctor, but he has always been an avid fisherman and now that he鈥檚 retired, he has a lot more time for fishing. He always would take me fishing when I was a kid, and I think that kind of instilled in me this whole desire for maintaining healthy oceans.鈥 

Wong is an assistant professor of coastal and marine climate change at the Nicholas School of the Environment. She joined Duke after a postdoctoral fellowship at Florida International University, drawn by Duke鈥檚 explicit institutional commitment to climate research. 鈥淚t was really important to me to be at a university where I felt like my work would be acknowledged and supported at the institutional level,鈥 she explains. 

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