Environmental Studies
Holloway Hall

Student Profiles

Juliana Humphreys, alum

Juliana Humphreys, 2011 ENVR graduate, has been accepted into Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she will pursue her M.S. in public health. Her acceptance includes a scholarship.

While at SU, Juliana participated in several study abroad experiences, performing community service in Costa Rica and learning about the environment in India and Peru. She also engaged in volunteer service while in Peru.

“After grad school, I hope to practice public health in a way that will positively impact the health of marginalized populations,” says Juliana. “My dream job would be in the field of Latino health promotion, so I can use my Spanish language skills, too!”

 

 

Zach Trenary, alum 

Zach began his internship with the Virginia Aquarium’s Marine Animal Care Center on October 4 and worked there for 10 weeks.  On his first day, he worked with the submarine crew of the USS Boise to rescue a loggerhead sea turtle in bad shape.  In mid October they released Big Boy 25, who had been found off the coast of St. Charles dragging a crabpot with a damaged flipper (the flipper had to be amputated). They fit him with a tracking device; you can view his travels at   http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?tag_id=65798&full=1&lang

As Zach says, “I enjoy caring for the turtles we are rehabilitating and often get in the tank with them.  All of my time is not as exciting as this, but is very educational.  I have to pick up quite a few dead dolphins on Virginia coastlines.  We take them back to our facility and perform necropsies to try to find the cause of death.  This is tough to deal with, but vital to facilitate change.”

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Zach and crew taking Big Boy out                                                Release day      

       of the tank for release

 

Natasha Shangold, sophomore:

     This past summer I had the opportunity to work as an intern in the Watershed Division for the  Maryland Department of Environmental Protection in Montgomery CountyWith this internship, I was able to gain experience dealing with stream monitoring, including geomorphological surveying (measuring for erosion), electro-fishing (measuring for pollution tolerance and biodiversity), subsampling macroinvertebrates (measuring for pollution tolerance and biodiversity in bottom dwelling organisms), and data entry (seeing patterns of data from site to site). This internship opened my eyes to what is out there in the professional world of environmentalism. I intend to keep exposing myself to the different options out there as an Environmental Studies major at SU.

 

 

 

      

Libby Young, alum:

Environmental Campaign Coordinator for the Highlands Campaign – SCA, AmeriCorps

As Environmental Campaign Coordinator for the Highlands Campaign, I am working to connect 180 environmental groups to help focus their shared interest of protecting forest land in the highlands region of NY, NJ, CT and PA. This region is an important area in the northeast that provides drinking water for over 15 million people. Broad expanses of undeveloped forestland still exist in this area, and are critical for the filtration and protection of major water sources. The goal of the Highlands Campaign is to protect this forestland to ensure a clean and plentiful water source for future generations. My responsibilities include researching and distributing information about water quality in the highlands region, populating social media pages for the Highlands Campaign website, and networking with the 180 member groups of the Highlands Coalition. Since I am an SCA intern, I participate regularly in service projects and trainings with other SCA Hudson Valley Corps interns on top of my duties as an Environmental Campaign Coordinator. These gatherings are always a lot of fun and sometimes attract up to 100 other interns!

 www.highlandscampaign.org

www.thesca.org

Also you can friend us on Facebook/follow us on Twitter – search “Highlands Campaign”     

                                                                                

Erica Bacon,alum:

Since graduating from SU, I have worked as an environmental educator in both the Northeast and Northwest--for the NorthWoods Stewardship Center, the Sargent Center for Outdoor Education and Salish Sea Expeditions.  I also spent a summer working on an organic farm/ homestead in northern Vermont.  For the past year I have been living in Seattle doing organizing work for the Community Alliance for Global Justice as the co-chair of their Food Justice Project- doing work around sustainable agriculture, connecting people with local farms, and doing education and outreach work to address the problems created by our globalized, industrialized food system- including health, human rights and environmental problems. I am currently seeking support for a delegation that I am taking to Oaxaca with Witness for Peace, the Community Alliance for Global Justice and the WA Fair Trade Coalition--and a writing project that I will be doing about the experience. You can learn more here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1909261482/food-farming-and-migration-in-oaxaca-a-narrative?ref=emai