Amy Rath is the Communications and Outreach Coordinator for Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary. Originally from Savannah, Georgia, her passion for the natural environment and sense of adventure led her to Alaska where she enjoyed a rewarding and adventurous life and career for nearly a decade. While in Alaska, she obtained a B.S. degree in Geography and Geology and she is now completing a M.S. degree in Natural Resource Management and Geography with the University of Alaska. Amy joined the Sanctuary team with a diverse marine research and science communications background that enables her to interpret science and disseminate information to the public for generating awareness of and stewardship for Gray's Reef. Outside of work, she can often be found mucking around the intertidal or paddling through a salt marsh.

As Education Specialist for the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, Amy played a key role on ACEP’s outreach team to disseminate information to the public and to educate Alaska’s youth, with a goal to inspire our future work force, leaders, decision makers and community members.

Tasked to deliver science with an aquatic ecology focus across the curriculum for 5th and 6th grade students for one academic year. The NSF GK-12 Fellowship pairs a selected graduate student in the sciences with one or more k-12 classrooms. The goal is for the graduate student to share scientific knowledge with the k-12 teachers and for the teachers to share communication skills with the "scientist". While an indirect benefit of the program, the k-12 students gain knowledge, skills, and experience with science!

Tasked to deliver Traveling Planetarium lessons to rural Alaskan communities as part of a NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) funded program.

Field collections, sorting, and identification of benthic marine organisms, Port Valdez, Alaska.

Field research for NPS long-term monitoring programs: aquatic ecology for shallow lakes and glacial streams in Wrangell St.Elias National Park and Preserve, small mammal survey in Denali National Park. Logistics planning and field gear distribution. GIS mapping and photo-linking GPS to aerial survey images. Data collection and database entry.