Christina Murphy Featured on Oregon State University Homepage

Noted on September 25, 2008 by Natanya in

Excerpt from http://oregonstate.edu/home/stories/index.php?story=christine_murphy

"It was a frigid winter night on Chile’s central coast, and Christina Murphy was standing in the surf in her wet suit with a night vision monocular, getting pummeled by waves. She was counting her research subjects — nocturnal, carnivorous crabs of the species Acanthocyclus gayi that hide in algae or rock crevices — unaware that she would later regard the experience as one that cemented her love for her work.

"It was, however, an unsurprising revelation — Murphy has wanted to be a scientist since the age of six, and has never question that career path.

“'I’ve always wanted to be a professor, ' Murphy says. 'I got shot down as a kid. But I like getting up in front of crowds. I like talking to people. As I’ve gone further in my education, it's a given.'

"Murphy has pursued her goal throughout her education and has seized opportunities to focus on it at Oregon State University, where she was an IE3 Global intern in Chile and performed reseearch on the coastlines of Washington, Oregon and the Galapagos Islands. Now Murphy, who earned University Honors degrees in biology, fisheries and wildlife and international studies , is planning to use her research and international experience as a Fulbright scholar." Read more on OSU's home page.