A 25-year-old Emirati environmental researcher and scientist is elevating the role of women in the marine biosphere. According to Maryam Al-Memari, these women’s proposals would be more “culturally and contextually relevant” if accompanied by a thorough understanding of the surrounding context.
The inaugural Dolphin Energy Award recipient from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) is the Kawader Fellow, who conducts “multifaceted research,” testing “eco-friendly antifouling coatings to protect marine infrastructure, reduce marine pollution, and examine historical trends of desalination and their environmental impacts in the Arabian region.
Most importantly, I look at how coastal development will affect the Gulf states, including what local female reef scientists have to say to close the gender gap in the field’, Al-Memari told Gulf Today.
As part of the ninth observance of August 28th, which is known as “Emirati Women’s Day,” Al-Memari, one of the 3.34 million Emirati women living in the nation, was interviewed.
This year’s theme is “We Share for Tomorrow,” as directed by Her Highness Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak, the nation’s Mother and the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan’s wife, the United Arab Emirates’ founder.
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