Hadley Owen
Graduate Student, MSc in GIS Program
Department of Geographical Sciences
University of Maryland
Current home base: Seattle, WA
Email: haowen@umd.edu
Current home base: Seattle, WA
Email: haowen@umd.edu
Hadley Owen recently separated from the commissioned service of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Corps) after nearly 12 years. Her last assignment was as navigation services manager with NOAA's Office of Coast Survey, the maritime navigation and charting side of of NOAA, in Anchorage, Alaska. Previous assignments were as Operations Officer on the hydrographic survey (and now also dive-support) vessel NOAA Ship Rainier, in Alaska, Hawaii, and the Pacific coast; Vessel Operations Coordinator in Honolulu, Hawaii, supporting the dive field team for the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands; and as a junior officer on the NOAA Ship Fairweather, a sister ship to Rainier.
Prior to her time with NOAA, Hadley worked in other areas of the maritime industry, starting as a deckhand in the small ship cruise industry (sailing in Southeast Alaska, the Columbia and Snake Rivers, and Baja California); and ending as a vessel operator for the National Park Service, at Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, in Southeast Alaska.
She also spent 3 years as a broke 20-something right out of college, writing grant proposals at a performing arts non-profit in New York City; lived in a campervan, traveled, and worked in New Zealand for a year on a working holiday visa; studied Spanish and the meaning of life for 5 months in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and spent a miserable few months trying to make a living in sales in the wine industry in Seattle.
Hadley has held a United States Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Credential since 2004. She received a graduate certificate in Ocean Mapping from the University of New Hampshire, and her undergraduate degree many MANY years ago in Geosciences, from Princeton University. She is currently a full-time graduate student pursuing a Master of Science in Geospatial Information Sciences at the University of Maryland (aka. "unemployed"), while enjoying life and flying trapeze in Seattle, WA.
...what the two authors discovered is that adults over 40 perceive themselves to be, on average, about 20 percent younger than their actual age.
...Internally viewing yourself as substantially younger than you are can make for some serious social weirdness.
“30 year olds should be aware that for better or for worse, the 50 year old they’re talking to thinks they’re roughly the same age!” he wrote. “Was at a party over the summer where average was about 28 and I had to make a conscious effort to remember I wasn’t the same—they can tell of course, so it’s asymmetrical.”
Yes. They can tell. I’ve had this unsettling experience, seeing little difference between the 30-something before me and my 50-something self, when suddenly the 30-something will make a comment that betrays just how aware she is of the age gap between us, that this gap seems enormous, that in her eyes I may as well be Dame Judi Dench.
-- from The Atlantic, on "The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are" (April 2023 Issue)
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learnanything or anyone
that does not bring you aliveis too small for you.
-- "Sweet Darkness" by David Whyte