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.”
 
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 County.  With
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
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