CIRES, NOAA, or elsewhere, boosted my confidence that I could succeed in math and science fields. It solidified my resolve to pursue a career in science,” said Cassia Rye, now a Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska.
Winning regional teams travel to the national competition where they compete for scholarships and trips to oceanographic research institutions. Not only is it good fun, it helps prepare a future generation of scientists. “I had already decided on a science career before NOSB,” said Hannah Wallace, now a biological engineering student at CU, “but focusing on the biology topics solidified my biology foundation for college.”
So what kind of fish practices the aforementioned lifestyle? Catadromous. 
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Since 1999, CIRES has sponsored the competition for top high school students from Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, and Utah. The students compete in an ocean sciences-themed quiz contest at the University of Colorado at Boulder, now dubbed the Trout Bowl.
While there, students have the opportunity to get to know the campus and chat with CU students and researchers. This experience can lead to lasting confidence. “Participation in NOSB and the interaction with the volunteers, whether from CU,
What do you call a fish that spends most of its life in freshwater, but migrates to the open ocean to reproduce?
Being land-locked hasn’t stopped Intermountain West students from answering questions like this in the regional contest of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl. And even though a trip to the finals, held annually in a coastal city, may be the first time students may have visited the ocean, they’ve repeatedly shown their ocean-knowledge prowess finishing near the top of the competition many years.
