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Many of our recent Environmental Studies majors and minors are already off to promising careers in the following areas:
- Environmental science
- Policy and planning
- Consulting and risk assessment
- Non-profit and advocacy
- Education
- Graduate & law school
- Other exciting careers
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Environmental Science
Heather Johnson works as a field scientist for the Department of the Interior. She is currently studying a threatened fox species at the Channel Islands National Park in California. (See Heather and fox below.)
Allison Perry was a summer naturalist for the Audubon Society and a water quality field technician for an environmental consulting firm on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, before taking a position with CDM, a consulting firm doing contract work for the EPA in New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. She analyzes radioactive Superfund sites for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers.
Lori Rhoades is a scientist in the Environmental Division of GeoLogics, a consulting firm outside Washington, D.C.
Tracy Scheffler has worked as a researcher with the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program in Annapolis, Md. She recently graduated from the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University with a master's in environmental management.
Stephen Sherman is in Alexandria, Va., with Booz. Allen & Hamilton, working as an analyst in the Defense Environmental Restoration Program.
Andy Smith is the chemistry laboratory supervisor for sample processing at ESS, an environmental consulting firm in Rhode Island.
Tara James works for URS Corporation as an environmental scientist.
Joe White is an environmental scientist with DynCorp in Washington, D.C.
Olivia Campbell is currently Director of public Relations for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (seen with baby black bear, below). See this press release for more on Olivia's experiences since graduating as an ES major.
Kristin Sullivan now works for Iberdrola Renewables USA. She is involved with community relations/information sharing with landowners and local community members invovled in large scale wind farms (see picture below).
Jill Abrahamson worked with threatened birds of prey in the Florida Everglades after graduation and is now a planner with the Union County, Pa., Planning Department.
John Burrows received his master's degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environment, where he studied social and policy dimensions of the conservation of biological diversity and performed a policy science analysisof the Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary management plan. He now works as a policy analyst for Project Performance Corporation, an environmental consulting firm in Washington, D.C.
Christina Cromley is a Phi Beta Kappa who graduated as valedictorian of the Class of 1995. She earned a Ph.D. at the Yale School of Forestry and the Environment, where she investigated the grizzly bear and bison recovery programs in Wyoming. She is now director of forest policy with the environmental group American Forests in Washington, D.C.
Jenn Snyder served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Boliva while completing a Ph.D. in tropical rain forest ecology at the University of Montana. She is now a policy analyst for the Nature Conservancy.
Consulting and risk assessment
Tim Gard works at an environmental consulting firm in New York City (seen below on top of the George Washington Bridge)
Ayca Ergeneman works in the Economics and Finance Group of ICF Kaiser International, and environmental consulting firm outside Washington, D.C.
Carolyn Hall combined her interests in sociology and environmental studies by pursuing a master's degree in regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania. She now works for a land use consulting firm in New England.
Kristin Sullivan completed a Peace Corps assignment in agroforestry development in Honduras, and is now an energy analyst for PWI Energy in Philadelphia.
Craig Johnson is an associate account executive at Travelers Property and Casualty in Connecticut, working on risk assessment and litigation related to toxic waste and natural disasters. He is applying to law school.
Joe Madigan works in the insurance business as a pollution underwriter for ECS Underwriting.
Josh Mattison works in Boston for Pennoni Associates, a multi-national engineering consulting firm with offices in the United States, Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines.
Leslie Rapparlie currently works full-time at the NY-NJ Trail Conference, a non-profit dedicated to preserving open space and building and maintaining trails in the NY/NJ region. She also teaches writing part-time at Rutgers University, often implementing environmental topics into her curriculum.
Kristen Caputo and Kristin Sullivan are Peace Corps volunteers working on agroforestry development programs with villagers in the Dominican Republic and Honduras.
Nicky Galbraith is in Tanzania, where she serves as an Environmental Educator in the Peace Corps.
Joanne Miller works in Washington, D.C., for the National Free Trust, providing tree seedlings to groups around the country.
Ashley Binter is a candidate analyst for the League of Conservation Voters in Washington, D.C.
Marla Ferkett is Web librarian for the EnviroLink Network, based in Pittsburgh.
Abby Line is a science teacher in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Derek Risso was an All-American lacrosse player at Gettysburg who now teaches environmental studies and serves as the head lacrosse coach at the Baylor School in Tennessee. He is also in the Environmental Science graduate program at the University of Tennessee and will be starting field work in the Sierras over the summer.
Graduate and professional schools
Paul Herzer is a graduate student in toxicology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.
Jason Hummel is a graduate student in energy and resource policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.
Darby Kiley worked as a restoration ecologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the Rio Grande at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge before moving to the Patuxent National Wildlife refuge in Maryland. She is now a graduate student in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University.
Lucas Kimball works on his family's coffee plantation near Rio de Janeiro and plans to attend graduate school in environmental geology.
Jeff Kitchens was assistant director of environmental and outdoor education at Camp Friendship in Palmyra, Va. He is now a graduate student in in forestry at Colorado State University.
Traci Bullock is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, with a fellowship to investigate the population dynamics of marine organisms in Chesapeake Bay. She is also teaching 8th grade science at Briggs Chaney Middle School in Burtonsville, Maryland.
Andrew Lavenburg, an ecosystems analyst with the U.S. Geological Survey in the Florida Everglades and Chesapeake Bay, has been accepted to begin his graduate studies at Duke University.
Tara Elgie was a policy analyst for DynCorp. She is now studying environmental law at the University of Richmond Law School.
Mark Lewis is a graduate student in applied ecology and conservation biology at Frostburg State University in Maryland.
Tim Maguire is a graduate student in geography at Portland State University, where he is specializing in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Colleen Patterson won a three-year scholarship to attend law school at Seton Hall University.
Scott Randall does field work for the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection in Maryland and is a graduate student in the Environmental Policy Program at Johns Hopkins University.
Mark Rostafin was project scientist at Air Pollution Characterization and Control, an environmental consulting firm in Connecticut, and now coordinates pollution site screening for EA Engineering, Science and Technology, a firm in Maryland. He is also in the graduate program at Johns Hopkins University.
James Simino is a graduate student at Oregon State University, where he conducts field surveys on threatened species for the Bureau of Land Management.
Rachael Wagaman was a wildlife educator at the Miami Museum of Science. She is now in the graduate program in the Marine Affairs Program at the University of Miami, working on Florida Bay plankton dynamics with the Ocean Chemistry Department.
Lyle Whitney is a graduate student in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.
George Torgun is studying environmental law and policy at the University of Michigan Law School.
Brandon van Balen is in law school.
Christopher Stella earned a master's degree in environmental health from SUNY-Stony Brook, and is now in law school.
Jason Bodwell was a policy analyst for DynCorp, a major environmental consulting firm in Washington, D.C. He is now a graduate student in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.
Amy Phillips has moved to New York City to design Internet websites for 3view.com.
Brian Rusignuolo was a Geographic Information Systems specialist mapping forest ecology parameters for the National Park Service at Camp David, Md., then a policy analyst at DynCorp, and is now enjoying work as an implementation specialist with Select Medical Corp. Brian is also the co-author of two marine ecology research papers with Professor John Commito.
Janna Schultz works in Boston for Environmental Careers Organization, providing career services.
Phil Schrode is a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and takes graduate classes in coastal zone management.
Lennon Thompson lives in San Diego, Calif., where she works for Equinox, a marketing firm that specializes in environmental products.
Heather Donaldson is working in a medical research laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and applying to graduate programs in environmental science.
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