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INSIDER October 2026

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Scholar Alumni – Where Are They Now?

Victoria Newman, PhD, CEM, PMI-ACP, CEA (1997-1998, SDSU)
earned a PhD in Biology through the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral
Program in 1999. She currently works as a Resource Efficiency
Manager for Energy Efficiency & Consulting Services in Honolulu,
Hawaii, where she identifies energy conservation opportunities and
helps to facilitate the implementation of projects, initiatives, and
programs that reduce energy consumption and demand, save money,
and benefit the environment. She augments existing customer
capabilities and serves as an on-site action agent to facilitate energyand cost savings.

Dr. Newman has 20+ years of experience across the scientific, environmental, sustainability,
energy, and renewable energy sectors. She also volunteered to serve as Vice President for the
Hawaii Chapter of The Association of Energy Engineers for two years (2021-2022).

Stace E. Beaulieu, PhD (1997, SIO/UCSD) is a Senior Research
Specialist in the Biology Department at Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution (WHOI). Her specialty is deep-sea benthic invertebrates,
including surveying and sampling to assess biodiversity, distribution,
and abundance. She previously served as coordinator of the
InterRidge (2007-2009) and Ridge 2000 (2010-2012) program
offices and currently coordinates WHOI’s Ocean Informatics
initiative.

When she was about 6 years old, she became interested in the deepsea and kept that interest
through undergraduate studies at Stanford University and graduate studies at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, earning a PhD in Biological Oceanography in 1998. After
receiving her PhD, she worked as postdoctoral research at WHOI and has been working there
ever since.
Dr. Beaulieu has 25 years of seagoing experience, including dives to the abyssal plain and
hydrothermal vents in the human-occupied vehicles Alvin and Shinkai 6500. Her research at
deep-sea vents includes studies of re-colonization after volcanic eruptions and dispersal of
larvae between vents in the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument. She updates the
InterRidge Global Database of Active Submarine Hydrothermal Vent Fields and presently
serves on the international sFDvent Working Group to build a global functional trait database
for hydrothermal vent ecosystems. In addition to research and data management, Dr. Beaulieu
teaches and is involved in public outreach. To learn more about Dr. Beaulieu’s work, here is a
6-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQxitMBpf3Y

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