{"id":12,"date":"2021-02-01T23:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T06:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexanderdungate\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2021-04-25T13:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T20:17:32","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexanderdungate\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nice to meet you!\u00a0 My name is Alexander, I am studying a B.Sc. (Computer Science, Genetics, Conservation), and a Master of Management at The University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to grow up on the west coast of British Columbia, and I have been playing in the ocean since I could crawl.\u00a0\u00a0 Growing up I would spend endless hours looking at the creatures in the inter-tidal zone and swimming with my eyes open underwater so I could sea the fish.\u00a0 To this day I am happiest on the ocean: either surfing, swimming, sailing, fishing, or just poking around.\u00a0 I have been teaching sailing for over 7 years, and I like helping others fall in love with the ocean.<\/p>\n

I’ve always had a fiery passion for science, first inspired by Ms. Frizzle and The Magic School Bus. <\/a>(To this day I believe Ms. Frizzle taught me more than my school science courses through grade 9.) In university I spent a 2.5 years building super sonic rockets with the UBC Rocket Engineering Design Team.<\/a><\/p>\n

Recently my work has shifted into the tech sector, where I built software solutions for the BC Center for Disease Control<\/a> and SAP<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 I am excited to find ways to combine my passion for oceans with my technical and quantitative skills.<\/p>\n

Please reach out and say hello! (Here’s my LinkedIn<\/a>) I am always happy to talk about sailing, surfing, rockets, oceans, and anything science related.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Figure 1.<\/strong> Alexander having fun at the bow during a gale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nice to meet you!\u00a0 My name is Alexander, I am studying a B.Sc. (Computer Science, Genetics, Conservation), and a Master of Management at The University of British Columbia. I was lucky enough to grow up on the west coast of British Columbia, and I have been playing in the ocean since I could crawl.\u00a0\u00a0 Growing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42328,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexanderdungate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexanderdungate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexanderdungate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexanderdungate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexanderdungate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexanderdungate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexanderdungate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alexanderdungate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}