Lisi Heinzen de Liz

Spending holidays on the beach made me observe the sea for hours. Although the ocean covers most of our planet, it brings us so many mysteries, doubts and curiosities. Some people may think it is a "joke", but when I was a child, I loved to watch the movie "The Little Mermaid" and "Finding Nemo", where both showed great ocean floor richness. These details aroused interests on me in choosing the Bachelor course in Oceanography at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in order to learn more about the vast ocean that surrounds us. The course covers several fields - physics, chemistry, biological, geological and management. I'm still an undergraduate student, attending the 7th semester. This is my first experience as a volunteer intern, working on a project that aims to identify bacteria that produces hydrogen, present in dead zones, from phylogenetic determination, and this gives us ways to quantify the energy production by bacteria.

April 2016