In 2017, Callie Veelenturf won the first conservation scholarship given out by Turtle Island Restoration Network, which meant she’d be traveling with Todd Steiner, the head of the West Marin-based nonprofit, to study sharks and turtles at Cocos Island, 350 miles off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica

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