Paige Bodnar

My name is Paige Bodnar, I am a fifth year Ocean Naval Architectural Engineering (ONAE) student at Memorial University of Newfoundland. I grew up sailing on the east coast and spent most of my life surrounded by the water. I even had the opportunity to live on a tall-ship on the Atlantic Ocean for 10 months. With the ONAE co-op program I have worked with DND, Irving Shipbuilding, Fleetway Engineering, Aalto University and currently with Memorial University where I’m doing a literature review on the effects of underwater radiated noise on marine fauna in the Arctic region. At school, I’m on the student engineering society, the MUN sailing team, I am the ONAE class representative and the SNAME MUN Chapter representative. Outside of school and work I spend my time outdoors, rock climbing, skiing, hiking, biking and more. I have also had the opportunity to earn many awards and scholarships including the SNAME Undergraduate Scholarship, NSERC Research Grant, American Bureau of Shipping Award, Robert Allan Undergraduate Scholarship, Professor Bill Milne Scholarship, John Madvig Bursary and a Governors General Award. I intend on continuing with academia after finishing my undergraduate degree and am very excited about the direction of ocean naval research.