alumni review Graduation & Reunion 2009

kroon hall grand opening… pg 4

class parties… pg 12

commencement… pg 20 From the Director of Alumni Affairs

hange is afoot at Yale F&ES in 2009! We sent Dean Gus Speth off with a rip- roaring climate change discussion and a promise to keep him close to us as an “honorary F&ES alumnus.” In the same breath, we welcomed incoming Cdean, Sir Peter Crane, with an eagerness to get to know him and to collaborate with him on our School’s next stage of evolution – all of this in the bright light of Kroon Hall, our new home at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies! Changes outside the School had their impacts too, as budgets became leaner, staff positions fewer, and planning tighter. We realize each and every one of you are dealing with fallout from national and global economic shifts in your own way. This publication, for example, is a combination of two previous keepsake pieces, Reunion Newsletter (since 2003) and Graduation Newsletter (since 2001), published annually for F&ES alumni audiences by our Office. To embrace our new frugality we offer this hybrid publication to the same audiences. In addition, we have taken this opportunity to create an additional feature in providing a briefing on our F&ES Alumni Association Board activities. Once the excitement of Reunion Weekend and Graduation passed, we on the staff planned and executed our office moves into recently updated Sage Hall. At this writing, we have re-inhabited Sage Hall, re-installed our Graduation Photo Gallery, and are settling in with our new dean and our new crop of future F&ES alumni. We present this reflection on Reunion Weekend 2009 and Graduation 2009 as fond memories with you, F&ES alumni who starred in the events of 2009!

Kathleen Schomaker ’96

...... save these dates: may 7 – 9 reunion weekend 2010

Join all F&ES alumni/ae to celebrate anniversary classes of: 2005, 2000, 1995, 1990, 1985, 1980, 1975, 1970, 1965, 1960, and honor 1955, 1950, 1945 …

Highlights include: For more information contact: • TGIF/Class parties Kath Schomaker • Kroon Hall Tours Director of Alumni Affairs • Field trips/continuing education [email protected] • Biennial Diversity Update 203.432.5108 • Symposium/awards luncheon • Tree planting at Marsh

Printed on recycled paper Table of Contents

2 Yale Myers Field Trip

3 Kroon Hall Tours

4 Kroon Hall Grand Opening

8 Symposium – One Hundred Years, One Hundred Days: Reflect and Celebrate!

Yale Myers 12 Anniversary Classes

14 Flapjacks and a New Tree

15 Reunion 2009 Attendees

16 Alumni Association Board at Work

18 Graduates 2009

20 Pomp & Circumstance Kroon Grand Opening 24 Class Snapshots

28 Memories…

32 Class of 2008 Update

36 F&ES Resources

Reunion 2009 Symposium Grad Procession

Class of 1994 Party

alumni review 2009 Executive Editor: Kathleen Schomaker ’96 Managing Editor: Deborah DeFord Graphic Design: Bryan Gillespie, YPPS Photographers: Javier Dominguez, Class Speeches Matt Garrett, Peter Otis, Harold Shapiro, Catherine Feihn (back cover) Contributors: various alumni

...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 1 Yale Meyers Field Trip

arly Friday morning, Prof. Mark Ashton and research coordinator Brent Frey joined Reunion Weekend Etrekkers to tour Yale Myers Forest. Once arrived at the forest, the day began with a camp stop-in at Morse House, followed by a walk along the demo trail, Kozy Road (much distracted along the way, according to witnesses, by the group’s efforts to eradicate invasives). A picnic lunch restored everyone to full energy, and fueled them for the walk back to camp via the April 2009’s planting of chestnuts, where conversation inevitably turned to the notorious woolly adelgid, the eastern hemlock’s equivalent to the devastating blight of the past century that wiped out eastern chestnuts.

...... 2 alumni review 2009 Kroon Hall Tours

roon Hall, the new administrative home of F&ES (named after the family of Mary Jane and Rick Kroon), was built not only to be energy efficient, Kbut to put its occupants in closer contact with nature, embodying the theory that such contact maximizes people’s emotional, social and intellectual capacity. At 66.5 feet tall, 57 feet wide and 218 feet long, the building boasts a southern façade that maximizes solar penetration during the winter. The lowest floor is built into a hillside to minimize northern exposure and provide insulation. Kroon Hall uses 50 percent less energy than a conventional modern building of the same size. The wooden louvers, made of Douglas fir and located at each end of the building, are fixed in position at 23 degrees and are meant to deflect heat and glare during the summer, but allow ample natural light into the building. Reunion Weekend attendees were able to view these and the many other water, energy and architectural sustainability features during the numerous tours conducted over Reunion Weekend. Especially appealing to alumni of our School, and certainly those who took part in the Yale Myers field trip in northeastern Connecticut, is the fact that half of the red oak used to panel the interior of Kroon Hall—15,000 board feet—was harvested from the Yale Myers Forest. All the wood used in the building was harvested from sustainably managed forests and is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. More detailed information will soon be available on the School website at http://environment.yale.edu/.

...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 3 Kroon Hall Grand Opening

espite a stormy forecast, the sun shone on the festivities Friday afternoon in honor of Kroon Hall’s opening, and Dean Gus Speth’s leavetaking. Students, Dalumni, staff and honored guests filled the south courtyard of Kroon with conviviality, conversation, live jazz and a delicious Southern-style barbecue. The School treated Gus and Cameron Speth to traditional F&ES festooned hats, created by Jude Wu ’09 and Lisa Leombruni ’09 just for this occasion and worn by the Speths for a stroll down the “Speth Walk,” accompanied by Dixieland music and a crowd of well-wishers. Also on hand, members of the Kroon family assisted in the ribbon cutting; incoming dean, Sir Peter Crane, was introduced and made his way around the group for chats and greetings; and a highly-represented F&ES Alumni Association Board joined the fun as the kick-off to a full schedule of Reunion Weekend events. The afternoon of formalities and fabulous food morphed seamlessly into another fine F&ES tradition, TGIF, held for the first time in our new home.

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...... 6 alumni review 2009 ...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 7 Symposium

One Hundred Years, One Hundred Days: Reflect and Celebrate

ur Symposium theme, “One assumptions in Western thought. It is Land Ethic is never finally written Hundred Years, One Hundred the principle that – it evolves in the minds of the Days,” provided an opportunity contemplating community. Since Aldo …a thing is right when it tends to for F&ES alumni to reflect together on Leopold left this School as a student 100 O preserve the integrity, stability and the great work and writings of Aldo years ago, a new land ethic has been beauty of the biotic community. Leopold, M.F. 1909, at the centennial evolving. It is written in the stones and It is wrong as it tends otherwise. of his graduation from our School. wood of each of our historic buildings, (Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Leopold provides perennial inspiration to and it will be written into this wonderful Almanac, 1949) foresters, land managers, policy analysts new place, Kroon Hall, as well. Some of and researchers. At the same time, our An ethical relationship to land the words of our evolving relationship gathering gave us pause, as Yale School requires head and heart—both rational to the natural world are Aldo Leopold’s. of F&ES alumni not only celebrate the and emotional intelligences—as well as Some belong to others who have taught many strong shoulders on which we an “ecological conscience.” The Land Ethic and studied here, like Bill Burch, Steve stand, but also reflect on the historic challenges our notion of the boundaries Kellert and Dave Smith. And some of challenge of global climate change and of human moral consideration—it them are yours. the prospects for policy and impact makes the land (ecosystems) morally Liz Wyman Mills ’04 drew inspiration possibly emerging from Washington, considerable. Moral consideration for from Leopold’s Sand County Almanac D.C., just past the first 100 days of the land requires a new leadership approach observation that “one of the penalties of Obama administration. focused not on what leaders do and an ecological education is that one lives Symposium moderator and Alumni how they do it, but who leaders are alone in a world of wounds.” Embarking Board member, Bob Perschel ’79, and from what inner place or source on local community environmental introduced our theme with Leopold’s they operate, both individually and education, she found herself guiding “land ethic” — positing humans collectively. New leadership goals and students through a maze of local issues as members within the ecological needs are shared between the business including dealing with landfill impacts, community, rather than a species and environmental communities – we all encountering the realities of life off-the- outside of that community—with need a broader awareness and a deeper grid, understanding mill-town life and reflections that this principle was years understanding of the systems we are the shift from pulp wood to biomass ahead of its time, this idea created working with, the matrix within which energy, and “reading the landscape” the field of environmental ethics, and they arise, and the complexities of their with the ruins of 19th-century towns this notion challenged fundamental trajectories. embedded in 20th century forest lands.

...... 8 alumni review 2009 Mills recounted how students emerged Camp. To allay fear and encourage Administration’s first 100 days, during with greater ecological literacy—and farmers to sign up, Soil Erosion Service which the White House moved on burden—along with a greater sense of employees developed a play called everything from mercury emissions responsibility to serve as models in their “Old Man Erosion,” which was put and air pollution from ships to steps in communities, and found colleagues in on in schoolhouses throughout the climate change initiatives. Along the the process. watershed. Aldo Leopold and his two way, science has also come back into Pat Leavenworth ’79 told the story sons worked in the watershed and the federal decision-making process. of Coon Creek Valley in Wisconsin from joined the nighttime fire discussions, Carey commented, “Overall, it has been her work with Resources Conservation where they were inventing conservation an amazing change from the past eight Service (USDA). Coon Creek Watershed and multiple resource management on years, and offers hope for the future.” Project—the nation’s first watershed the fly. Chris Brown ’79, Liz Martin Perera project—was proposed by Soil Erosion Now, decades later, families like the ’04, and Dan Nepstad PhD ’89, helped Service Chief H.H. Bennett during the Haugen brothers, Ernie and Oscar, recall guide a lively discussion on pending early 1930s dust bowl and was intended when their fathers signed on to the climate legislation, anticipating to show farmers fearful of losing their conservation plan at the kitchen table COP15 in Copenhagen this December. severely eroded lands to the government with the government guys back in 1933- Climate change science, policy options, that the government was actually going 34, and they still follow the plan without negotiating sessions, legislative to be their ally in restoring the land so any additional government incentives. initiatives—all are arenas where D.C.- that they could again make a living. Along with the rest of the Coon Valley area alumni are actively engaged, and With support for this unique community, they are proud of their work, alumni around the country and the endeavor from President Roosevelt, celebrated in the Valley’s Conservation globe are chiming in. Aldo Leopold ’09 and others from the History at their Sesquicentennial Dean Speth—soon to be dubbed University of Wisconsin were the first several years ago. As Leopold said, “The “honorary F&ES alumnus” Gus Speth to visit Chief Bennett and petition for land ethic evolves in the mind of the ’04—was delighted with the lively Coon Creek, Wisconsin, to be selected community.” discussion among F&ES alumni on as the first watershed demonstration Inspired by these reflections on climate policy at his concluding Reunion project. Coon Creek was a huge success, how Aldo Leopold lives in the mind Weekend Symposium as dean. It was with more than 400 farmers restoring of the F&ES community, John Carey another historic moment , this time in their land over a two year period, ’79, brought the conversation up Kroon Hall/Burke Auditorium discussing aided by a Civilian Conservation Corps to date in reflecting on the Obama climate change policy, a century after Aldo Leopold left campus...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 9 Symposium continued

One Hundred Years, One Hundred Days: Reflect and Celebrate

...... 10 alumni review 2009 ...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 11 Anniversary Classes

lways a highlight of Reunion Weekend, Saturday night is Class Party night. The Classes of 1979, 1994, 1999 and 2004 gathered for remembering and catchingA up, with some family members (some of them future F&ES alumni?) joining the fun for good measure. Kudos to the class members who networked to make these gatherings a great time! For the third year running, the evening included a History Dinner with Jim Fickle, University of Memphis history professor and historian for the upcoming published history of the School’s first 100 years. Jim offered some insights and stories on the research he has done so far, and participants shared memories and ideas in kind.

...... 12 alumni review 2009 ...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 13 Flapjacks and a New Tree

hat’s Reunion Weekend without a good flapjack breakfast and the annual tree- Wplanting? Sunday dawned cool and sunny to greet alumni and families gathered for the occasion. Eric Larson, manager of the Marsh Botanical Garden, hosted this most recent addition—a dwarf Japanese Black Pine Pinus thunbergii ‘Banshoho.’ The planting received some expert help from the sandbox contingent (twigs from the alumni branch). The newly planted tree thrives.

...... 14 alumni review 2009 2009 Reunion Attendees

Amanda (Farris) Mahaffey ’04 Leah Hair ’74 Anne Perschel (Robert Perschel ’79) Lee Alexander ’83, Ph.D. ’89 Carol Hall ’94 Chris Pratt ’87 Ruth Allen ’72, Ph.D. ’77 Steve Harrington ’94 Kirsten Prettyman Adams ’99 Philippe Amstislavski ’04 Ellen Hawes Hobson ’06 Ken Pruitt ’95 Krista Anderson Mostoller ’06 Elizabeth Hayes McGraw ’94 Don Redmond ’94 Irene Angeletti ’04 Kate Heaton ’89 Diane Renshaw ’75 Vicki Arroyo (John Carey ’79) André Heinz ’99 Christopher Riely ’04 Nigel Asquith (Maria Teresa Vargas ’04) Danie Hellerstein ’86, Ph.D. ’89 Kirk Rodgers ’56 Oliver Barton ’94 David Hobson ‘04 Darren Ross (Jennifer Garrison Ross ’99) Gordon Bass (Jennifer Vogel Bass ’04) Benjamin Hodgdon ’03 Mary Rourke ’89 Jennifer Vogel Bass ’04 Coleman Holt ’71 Amy Saar ’05 Jennifer Baxter ’99 Harriet Honigfeld ’94 John Saar (Amy Saar ’05) Cordalie Benoit ’02 Jamie Jones (Christiana Soares Jones ’99) Nalin Sahni ’04 Beth (Owen) Bisson ’04 Diana Karwan ’04 Neha Sami ’04 Keith Bisson ’04 Rick Kelley ’80 Rahul Sami (Neha Sami ’04) Cherelle Blazer ’04 Dave Kittredge ’80, Ph.D. ’86 Kathleen Schomaker ’96, Director, Jonathan Bollen (Jane Calvin ’94) Rob Klee ’99, Ph.D. ’05 Alumni Affairs Julie Bourns ’89 Samuel Krasnow ’05 Maria Seidler ’07 Lindsay Brace Martinez ’94 R. A. Lautenschlag r ’74 Andrew Shapiro (Abby Weinberg ’04) Alexander Brash ’85 Pat Leavenworth ’79 Ben “Shep” Shepherd ’06 Christopher Brown ’79 Qi Feng Lin ’08 Sasha Silver ’00 Marco Buttazzoni ’04 James Lucas ’03 Laura Simon ’89 Rayna Caldwell ’07 Tom Lynch ’49 Suganthi Simon ’99 Jane Calvin ’94 Joan Lynch (Tom Lynch ’49) Dani Simons ’04 John Carey ’79 Ken Malloy (Maria Seidler ’07) Walter Smith ’04 Roger Carlson ’69, Ph.D. ’76 Brian Marcaurelle ’04 Christiana Soares Jones ’99 Elizabeth Carroll ’99 Peter Martinez (Lindsay Martinez ’94) Yajie Song ’89, Ph.D. ’95 Mohamad Chakaki ’06 Susan Tambi Matambo ’04 Gus Speth H ’09, F&ES outgoing Dean Nicole Chevalier ’99 C.J. May ’89 Cameron Speth (Gus Speth) Starling Childs ’80 Alex McIntosh ’05 Macol Stewart Cerda ’94 Liza Cleveland ’94 Bob Merrick (Liza Cleveland ’94) Yusuke Taishi ’04 Heather Coleman ’04 Aurelia Micko ’00 Steve Thomson ’73 Peter Coleman ’04 Jarod Mills (Liz Wyman Mills ’04) Graham Trelstad ’94 Philip Conkling ’76 David Moffat ’94 Mary Tyrrell ’97 Jonathan Cook ’04 Jen Molnar ’04 Maria Teresa Vargas ’04 Jane Coppock ’91 Judith Moore ’89 Daniela Vizcaino ’04 Valerie Craig ’04 Matthew Mostoller (Krista Anderson Jim Weigand ’89 Peter Crane, F&ES Dean Mostoller ’06) Abby Weinberg ’04 Michael Davies ’08 Sean Murphy ’94 Holly Welles ’88 Teresa Doksum (Ken Pruitt ’95) Moe Myint ’08 Diana Wheeler ’94 Javier Dominguez ’94 Jim Nash ’94 Jane Whitehill ’94 Michael Ebner (Suganthi Simon ’99) Marc Neilson (Susan Tambi Matambo ’04) Jessica Wilkinson ’94 Tasha Eichenseher ’04 Dan Nepstad ’87, Ph.D. ’89 Eric Wilkinson (Jessica Wilkinson ’94) Juan Espinosa ’04 Tim Northrop ’03 Herb Winer ’49, Ph.D. ’56 Erik Esselstyn ’93 Rugemeleza Nshala ’07 Ethan Winter ’04 Ona Ferguson ’04 Jon Nute ’85 Jeanne Wong-Boehm ’79 Margarita Fernandez ’04 Chad Oliver ’70, Ph.D. ’75 Henry Woolsey ’79 Cesar Flores-Negron ’95 Brian O’Malley ’99 Heather Wright ’04 Jocelyn Forbush ’99 Rachel O’Malley ’96 Brad Wyman ’67 Kathleen Frangione ’04 Anne Osborn ’00 Susan Wyman (Brad Wyman ’67) Dave Galt ’97 Jennifer Palmiotto ’94, Ph.D. ’99 Liz Wyman Mills ’04 Jennifer Garrison Ross ’99 Peter Palmiotto ’94, Ph.D. ’98 Henry Young ’74 Gordon Geballe H ’81, F&ES Assoc. Dean Gene Peck ’96 Susan Young (Henry Young ’74) of Student and Alumni Affairs Liz Martin Perera ’04 Marie Zack Nolan ’82 Timothy Gregoire ’82, Ph.D.’85 Alexander Perera (Liz Martin Perera ’04) Kate Zyla ’04 Evan Griswold ’75 Robert Perschel ’79

...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 15 F&ES Alumni Association Board

he F&ES Alumni Association Board is a group of 18 volunteers committed to leading the effort to keep F&ES alumni in touch with the School while keeping the TSchool in touch with our alumni! Board members meet three times each year—in early fall to plan for the year, in winter to focus on Reunion Weekend, and in May at Reunion Weekend (RW) to communicate with the gathering of alumni. Those of you who joined us in New Haven for Reunion Weekend 2009 last May know that many Board members were on hand for the Kroon Hall Grand Opening and our Symposium event, and participated as leaders in a few animated “reflection groups” with Reunion attendees. At the October 2009 planning retreat, Dean Peter Crane met with the Board to introduce himself and his professional interests, to outline his first impressions of the School and to delineate a few strategic opportunities he envisions for F&ES in the near future. The Board, with the help of facilitator Ona Ferguson ’04, then undertook a brainstorming and planning process, reflecting on Dean Crane’s message while also incorporating the collected input from the May 2009 Reunion Classes, Yale Clubs, and more—at a themed Assembly. This alumni reflection groups. The result of that work continues year’s Assembly was held November 1921,­ 2009, on the as Board committees generate workplans to invigorate their theme, “Transformational Dialogue: Spiritual and Religious activities and the Board as a whole works on both short- and Engagement at Yale and in the World.” Invitees to AYA long-range strategic plans to inform and support those of our Assemblies include F&ES delegates and other Board members. new dean. [NOTE: Please watch your quarterly F&ES Alumni AYA also manages a suite of online services for all Yale alumni, E-News for more information on Alumni Board activities.] including Yale Career Network, Virtual Yale Station and the Included among Board members are the F&ES delegates Online Alumni Directory. You may access these services at: to the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), the umbrella alumni www.alumniconnections.com/yale organization on campus. Among its many other activities, AYA annually convenes delegates from a variety of Yale alumni constituencies—professional Schools, Yale College ...... 16 alumni review 2009 ...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 17 F&ES Salutes Our Master’s Graduates 2009!

Master of Environmental Management Mercedes Aurelia Bravo Master of Environmental Science/ Jenny Ace Tianming Chen Master of Business Administration Gabriela Alonso Mendieta Peter Anton Christensen Neda Arabshahi Alyssa Lee Arcaya Michael Jeremy Coren Panah Bhalla Stephanie Nicole Day Master of Environmental Management/ Nina Bhattacharyya Darcy Graham Dugan Juris Doctor Casey Crockett Brown Sara Katrin Enders Seth Lindsey Atkinson Ke Cao Francisco Javier Espinoza Denise Antonia Grab Sarah Marie Charlop-Powers Bjorn Kalle Fredrickson Mark Richard Diestro Evidente Todd William Jones Master of Environmental Management/ Joseph Jeffrey Famely Janet Kay Lawson Master of Public Health Christopher William Finney Jordan Evan Macknick Anna Hartung Milkowski Haley E Gilbert Helen Karin Chabot McMillan Lili Pirbazari Eva Marianna Gladek Claudia Alejandra Octaviano Villasana Lauren Elizabeth Goers Mary Alta Rogalski Master of Environmental Science/ Lisa Noelle Henke Esteban Rossi Master of Public Health Molly Elizabeth Howard Megan Christina Selby Meng Ji Olusola Uchenna Ikuforiji Trisha Renee Shrum Jacob O. Iversen Daniel Carl Steinberg Pace Law School Max Holtzman Joel Rachael Truth Teel Leslie Patrice King Cecilia Fadigas Viana Joint Degree Graduates Yi Luo Lauren Leigh McGregor Master of Forest Science Master Environmental Management André Mershon Francis Eugene Eaton, Sr. and Juris Doctor Glen William Mirmina Andjar Rafiastanto Hadrianus Sean Thomas Dixon William E. Morgan Tal Ilany Amir Joel Nadav Rajesh Koirala Vermont Law School Darcy Leanne Newsome Nancy Ann Marek Joint Degree Graduates Stephanie Niall Tara Parthasarathy Master of Forestry Master Environmental Management Brent Ellison Peich Ana Cecilia Del Cid-Liccardi and Juris Doctor Tristan James Peter-Contesse John Douglas Kaufman Elise N. Rindfleisch Shyla Raghav Brian Jeffrey Milakovsky Mirko Ivo Serkovic Jacob George Munger Neelesh Man Shrestha Joseph Nathan Orefice Hiroshi Sugano Norio Takaki, Jr. Yale Joint Degree Simon Lev Tudiver Fengyuan Wang Graduates Baihai Wu Judith Sy-Ying Wu Master of Environmental Management/ Jack Alexander Yeh Master of Business Administration Cindy Joan Chang Master of Environmental Science Claire Martine Jahns Meghna Agarwala Leif Linden Christa Marie Anderson Eric Roberts Ariana Cummings Bain Stella Zucchetti Schons Murefu Boniface Barasa Zephyr Taylor Katharine Elizabeth Boicourt John-Frederick Thye

...... 18 alumni review 2009 F&ES Salutes Our Doctoral Graduates 2009!

Nicole Michele Ardoin Major advisor: Prof. Stephen Kellert Sense of Place and Environmental Behavior at an Ecoregional Scale

Rebecca Ashley Asare Major advisor: Prof. William Burch Cocoa Establishment and Shade Management in Ghana’s Ashanti Region: Understanding the Main Factors Driving Farmer’s Decision Processes and Practices

Graeme Stewart Auld Major advisor: Prof. Benjamin Cashore Reversal of Fortune: How Early Choices Can Alter the Logic of Market-based Authority

Cristina M. Balboa Manja Holland M. Andrew Niccolai Major advisor: Prof. Benjamin Cashore Major advisor: Prof. David Skelly Major advisor: Prof. Chadwick Oliver When Non-Governmental Organizations Landscape Conversion and Amphibian Automated Methods for Individual Govern: Accountability in Private Disease: From Cellular Biology to Crown Information Extraction using Conservation Networks Community Ecology High Resolution Digital Imagery in the Northeast USA Jennifer Kakareka Balch Aaron Michael Hohl Major advisors: Profs. Lisa Curran Major advisor: Prof. Chadwick Oliver Anastasia Rose O’Rourke and Daniel Nepstad Decision Support Tools and Monitoring Major advisor: Prof. Daniel Esty Effects of Recurrent Fire on Transitional for Sustainable Forest Management The Emergence of Cleantech: Essays Forest Dynamics in the Amazon Wildfire on the Creation of Cleantech as a Frontier in Mato Grasso, Brazil Shafqat Hussain Venture Capital Category Major advisors: Profs. Michael Dove and Rebecca Titus Barnes Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan Alexandra Giselle Ponette-González Major advisor: Prof. Peter Raymond A History of Marginality: Nature and Major advisors: Profs. Lisa Curran Nitrogen Export to the Long Island Sound: Culture in the Western Himalayas and Kathleen Weathers Determining Fluxes and Processes within Land Cover Effects on Water Fluxes and the Connecticut River Watershed Elizabeth Ralston Jones Atmospheric Deposition across a Mexican Major advisors: Profs. Lisa Curran Tropical Montane Landscape Janette Bulkan and Oswald Schmitz Major advisor: Prof. Michael Dove The Influence of Mamalian Seed Tao Wang The Slippages Between Forestry Predation on Five Species in Papua Major advisor: Prof. Thomas Graedel Concession Policies and Practices in New Guinea: Differential Effects on Forging the Anthropogenic Iron Cycle Guyana Regeneration and Implications for Adult Recruitment Uromi Manage Goodale Major advisor: Prof. Graeme Berlyn The Ecophysiology of Pioneer Tree Species in Relation to Their Disturbance Ecology in a Wet Lowland Rainforest, Sri Lanka

...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 19 Pomp & Circumstance

ommencement without mortarboards is about as likely as F&ES mortarboards without a wild array of imaginative displays, including but not limited to Cvarious flora and fauna, signs, symbols, models and slogans. The well-topped F&ES graduates processed in colorful form from Kroon Hall and down Prospect Street to join the University graduates gathered from all corners of the campus on this momentus day.

...... 20 alumni review 2009 ...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 21 Graduation Scenes

fter a return procession to Marsh lawn, streaming in file behind the bagpipe and the standard-bearer, the graduates, both Master’s and Doctoral, took their Aplaces under the tent to hear the inspiring speeches and musical performances of their peers, and receive the reward for their years of hard work and dedication. Graduates also turned the tables to confer honors, including recognition to Prof. Brad Gentry, Prof. Chad Oliver and outgoing dean, Gus Speth.

...... 22 alumni review 2009 ...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 23 Class Snapshots

Inspiration

independence, are words this outstanding School of Forestry & that speak of being wary of Environmental Studies, an association distraction and keeping your that joins each of our names with those eyes on the prize. Today as who have gone before us, whose faces we step out into newness, stare down at us from framed wall excitement and uncertainty, pictures, whose names we hear and read By Murefu Barasa we choose to face forward. and whose deeds echo through eternity. My name is Murefu Barasa. When I As we bask in the pride that comes with ecause we – the Class of 2009 – was born, many moons ago, my father this naming, the realization that the race are the heroes of this great day, named me Murefu, a Swahili word is not always for the swift nor the battle this makes you – the parents meaning the “tall one.” I am always fast for the strong should instill in us a sense Bwho beckoned us to keep going, the to admit that this name can be a little of humility that will open us to consider supporters who gave their resource misleading. For obvious reasons many other voices. so that we travel from far and near have asked me whether this is truly There are many things that make this in search of a chance, the faculty my name while others have wondered, School outstanding, one of which is the who worked magic with theories and some even aloud, why I was named with rich diversity that offers what I like to numbers right before our eyes, the staff such a name. I always like to think that think of as the “utility of diversity.” On who made us feel special, the spouses when I was named Murefu, my father the surface it appears to be a diversity and friends and others who cheered us thought I would grow up so tall; but if of race, gender or nationality, but it goes on from the bleachers – this makes you not, that there will always be people beyond this and includes diversity of the greater heroes. Inasmuch as the along my path who would allow me to experiences, worldviews and focus, all diplomas we are about to receive have stand on their shoulders just to reach woven together to make a unique fabric our names written on them, we cannot a little further. I have been fortunate to that is this School, this Class. This utility fail to acknowledge the unwritten have such people, and the fact that we, of diversity has challenged our thinking names of those who nudged us closer the class of 2009 are seated here today and caused us to question givens, but to this day. says that most, if not all, of us have had more importantly to question ourselves. “We face neither east nor west; we similar fortune. Today we will be named This diversity can do little to our face forward.” These words of Kwame with great names not only because prejudices because these are of our own Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana we become “Masters” or “Doctors,” but choice, but it has certainly shifted our at the dawn of their graduation into more because of the association with biases closer to what is true and actual.

...... 24 alumni review 2009 This diversity has educated us on the crafting, debating and facing down of this amazing exposure to diversity, shades beyond the colors, enlightening these global challenges, I am hopeful. we then ought to give back the chances our tastes and sensibilities. So three things as I close: Because we have been given, graciously share Today more than ever is such today we are so grateful, owing our the gifts bestowed upon us and be that exposure to diversity needful, because gratitude to many; and because we will inspiration we desire to see in our world. we increasingly face problems that take be privileged to be named with a great Class of 2009, I know we will. on a global scale: health risks like the name; and because we have been part recent outbreak of the H1N1 virus or the financial crisis or the climate change risk that threatens the functioning of Community civilization as we know it. I am sure By Jude Wu that there are many elsewhere who are working tirelessly to confront these hank you, Murefu, what an honor global issues. I cannot speak for them, Friends, family, professors, deans, it is to speak with you today. I but I can speak of you, Class of 2009. I all the F&ES staff with us today, before want to share the little secret can speak of you because I have seen you sit almost 100 students with hearts with our friends and family that it took the looks on your faces and heard the T that sing fiercely! And we owe our not one, not two, but three rounds of urgency in your voices when you talk singing hearts to your love and support, voting before we were picked by our about your theses. I have seen the over the past two years or throughout classmates to speak today. Essentially, colorful pictures of your internship our lifetimes – for that we are deeply everyone voted for everyone else, such is experiences and listened to your project grateful. the immense love and respect we have ideas. We have shared food from the I have only a few minutes to share for one other. carts down Prospect Street, danced to thoughts on why this gathering is My dear classmates, F&ES faculty and the tunes of life at Bowers Hall, laughed worth celebrating and what it might staff, and friends and family, some wise a lot and been sad sometimes. We have contribute to our continued happiness advice from a man named Philip Thatcher spent long nights in the GIS labs and and future success. If I were to say just has given me the guidance to be where I gone on those tiring but useful field one word, it would be the title of the am today: Ask not what the world needs, trips. And because I know of you, have most important class we took at F&ES, ask rather what makes your heart sing… heard from you, and because there but which will never show up on any and go do that… for what the world needs are people like you thinking, working, transcript. It is the class that you, Class is people with hearts that sing. of 2009, taught me and one another, ...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 25 Class Snapshots continued

human community wreak such havoc on everything else? So here we come to an important distinction between two types of human associations, as described by German the class called “Community.” this planet. Why, then, waste our time sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies in 1887: Here is how I came to the topic of and lives on environmental careers? One type of human association can Community: A few weeks ago, at Yale’s Why not pick a career just for fun, one be translated as something like “civil first Environmental Film Festival, I had without any lofty, unattainable mission? society” – though “civil” seems ironic a powerful emotional breakdown. As That last question is easy to answer. here – in which the group never takes Disney’s Earth played, and children sat We know the work we do is too on more importance than individual entranced by the jaw-dropping scenery, important to neglect; perhaps that is self interest and individuals do not giggling at polar cubs learning to walk, key to why it makes our hearts sing. But necessarily share common ethics. Isn’t without warning, my eyes turned to how are we to surmount this sense of this precisely the mentality and social leaky faucets, tears drenching my cheeks impossibility at making a difference? structure that results in the “tragedy and shirt, running like rivers down my What all of you here at F&ES have of the commons” dilemma we’ve all face, silently. Behind the awe-inspiring taught me is the lesson that brought studied at F&ES? imagery, as dark shadows, all I could see back the light at the end of this dark Conversely, the other type of were smokestacks and tailpipes that at tunnel. More than ever I am convinced association offered by this sociologist every moment threaten the very glaciers that Community is one of the most is translated as “community,” in which on the screen. important weapons we have to individuals value the entire group’s best At first, I focused on me alone: reverse the trend of environmental interests equally if not more than their what difference am I going to make, degradation. But what does Community own self interest. These individuals just saving a few acres of polluted mean? According to our generation’s are voluntarily regulated by common land in my little lifetime? Even worse, authoritative source of all knowledge – ethics and expectations for appropriate I thought about how the number of Wikipedia – a biological community is behavior and responsibility (like not environmental advocates still pales in simply a group of interacting organisms showing up at more than one veggie comparison to the number of people sharing an environment, and, of course, dinner per week!). who don’t know or care about the humans are just one of many of such So, friends, imagine that we could impact of humans on everything else on organisms. Yet, what is it that makes the

...... 26 alumni review 2009 somehow bring modern humans back integral part of our lives. prom or international TGIF, may the card to this age-old idea that each individual So this is my graduation wish – really help you build your new community should uphold the interests of the entire a graduation plea – to each of you: into one that is nuts enough to organize human – and biological – community Take a piece of our F&ES community things like veggie dinner, tacky prom and in equal measure with each person’s with you, wherever you go. Take it to international TGIF. self-interest. Can you imagine how this Nepal, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Colombia, If you only remember one line from paradigm shift, among several million or Mexico, Washington, D.C., Boston. Plant my thoughts today, may it be this: When billion human beings in their daily lives, it firmly in your neighborhood and just it comes to invasive species, tree of could give us some real optimism? That this once, let Community become an heaven from MODS 1.0 – bad, bad, bad! image of several billion people, explicitly invasive species! Make it take over your Building Community – good, oh so good, or indirectly supporting the goals we are neighborhood until it spreads to your very, very good. venturing out to accomplish, that, my city and your country. Just don’t forget Thank you all! friends, was the revelation and hope to show up for work to get an actual that reignited the light at the end of paycheck! my tunnel. In closing, classmates, Murefu and Now, I don’t mean to suggest that I present this poster, “How to Build we quit our hard-earned jobs and Community,” as a class gift to Kroon get another Master’s – this time in or Sage Hall, in celebration of the Community Building. We need your community you have built here – from technical expertise, your dedication and Ari and Gabriela’s limitless hugs, to Neda your passion in the fields in which you our veggie dinner goddess, to the reliable have been trained. What I say is: Look Sean and Tristan behind turntables and around to this community we’ve built kegs. May this inspire future generations for two years while we were doing our of F&ESers to build community and academic and professional work. Outside spread it wherever they go. of the occasional loud and tacky proms We thank the school for generously and thriller dances thrown in here and providing a postcard version with each there, building our community was a of our diplomas. When you are far from quiet undercurrent, yet a joyous and us and start to miss veggie dinner, tacky

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Mt. Moosilauke, New Hampshire Alabama in March

Lake Winchester, Connecticut Mumbai, India

Great Mountain mysteries Great Mountain…top ...... 28 alumni review 2009 SAF, Tahoe, Nevada St. Johns

COP14 – Poznan, Poland Istanbul, Turkey

Great Mountain maps Soccer, F&ES style ...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 29 Memories continued

MODS…

MODS… and more MODS

Halloween Good times ...... 30 alumni review 2009 Down with that tree! Tackier Prom

Tacky Prom What Costume?

Holiday Party End of Year Party ...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 31 Class of 2008 Update

The offices of Career Development, Genevieve Biggs is communications Christopher Clement is a sustainable Alumni Affairs and Doctoral Studies have manager for the Gordon and Betty economist for EDAW/AECOM in San compiled the following information Moore Foundation in Winnetka, IL. Francisco, CA. about members of the Class of 2008. Emmanuel Blankson lives in Accra, Marcia Cleveland is a managing partner If you have updates to this information, Ghana focused in environmental law at Marcia please forward your update to us at J. Cleveland LLC in Bath, ME. [email protected]. Jessica Boehland is a program officer for the Environment Program at the Dresge Vin Conti is vice president of operations Foundation in Troy, MI. for Lantern Energy in New Haven, CT. Syeda Mariya Absar is a research Gerald Bright is an aquatic biologist for Kimpton Cooper is a district planner at officer in water policy for COMSTECH in the Philadelphia Water Department in the Walla Walla Ranger District Office, Islamabad, Pakistan. Philadelphia, PA. USDA Forest Service, in Walla Walla, WA. Obinna Aduba is a field assistant for Sara Bushey Ohrel works at the U.S. Caitlin Cusack is the Starksboro Art and Jones Family Farms in Hamden, CT. Environmental Protection Agency, Soul project coordinator for the Town of Angelica Afanador is a consultant for the focusing on climate economics and lives Starksboro, VT. World Bank in Washington, D.C. in northern Maryland. Audrey Davenport is a project manager Agha Ali Akram is a doctoral student Rayna Caldwell works for Corporate Eco in the Corporate Partnerships Program New Haven, CT. Forum in Saratoga Springs, NY. at the Environmental Defense Fund, Washhington, DC. Devorah Ancel is an environmental Luz Calle lives in New Haven and law fellow with the Sierra Club in San works at F&ES for the Environmental Michael Davies works at SCC Americas in Francisco, CA. Leadership & Training Initiative as their Housston, TX, on carbon mitigation and Leadership Program coordinator. renewable energy projects. Avery Christian Anderson lives in Santa Fe, NM. Jaime Carlson Ojeda is a Recovery Act Adrian Deveny is a Presidential fellow in the Department of Energy in Management Fellow with the DOE om Meg Arenberg is a domestic energy Washington, DC. Washington, DC. project coordinator at the Sunseed Tanzania Trust, Tanzania. Margaret Carmalt is a forester for the Kara DiFrancesco is a project NYC Parks Department in Flushing, NY. development associate for the Natural Weslynne Ashton is the program director Heritage Institute in San Francisco, CA. for the Program on Industrial Ecology in Natalie Ceperley is is living part-tme in Developing Countries at the Center for Lausanne, Switzerland, and part-time in Aarjan Dixit is a research assistant with Industrial Ecology, Yale School of F&ES, Majoari, Burkina Faso, working on a Ph.D. the Vulnerability and Adaptation team New Haven, CT. at the Ecole Polytechnique of Lausanne. at the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC. Georgia Basso is a senior analyst for Five Jeffrey Chatellier is an environmental Winds International in Paoli, PA. consultant at Bosch and Siemens Home Obidimma Ezezika is a senior research Appliances in Indonesia. fellow at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre Annette Bellafiore is a research associate for Global Health and project manager for Project FROG in Oakland, CA. Duncan Cheung is an analyst for of the ethical, social, cultural and GreenOrder in New York, NY. Jorge Bentin is an agricultural consultant commercialization program for Water in Lima, Peru. Anton Chiono is the California policy Efficient Maize for Africa. associate for the Pacific Forest Trust in Joshua Berman is a 2009–2010 Liman Laura Frye-Levine is director of research San Francisco, CA. Public Interest Fellow working with for the Center for Sustainable Cities in the Natural Resources Defense Council Zachary Christie is a manager at Lexington, KY. in Chicago, IL, on litigation to curb Greenhouse Gas Services, a venture Benson Gabler is manager of corporate greenhouse gas emissions from coal- formed by GE Energy FinancialServices sustainability at the PNC Financial fired power plants. and the AES Corporation. Services Group in Pittsburgh, PA.

...... 32 alumni review 2009 Joshua Gange is a juris doctoral student Laura Jensen is a conservation Chung-En “John” Lu is a doctoral at NYU Law School in New York, NY. practitioner for TNC in San Francisco, CA. student in the Environment & Resources program at the University of Wisconsin, Ramon Gastelum works for a clean tech John Jewell is an industry and public Madison. private equity group called Emerging affairs coordinator for the Dairy Farmers Energy & Environment and lives in of America in Kansas City, MO. Angela Lott is an environmental policy Mexico City, Mexico. associate for PG&E in San Francisco, CA. Kevin Johnston works for ESRI. Andrea Gelatt was admitted to the State Andrew Mackie is the executive director Olivia Kaplan is a forestry program Bar of California. of the Land Trust of the Upper Arkansas coordinator for the Clinton Climate in Salida, CO. Dominique Gilbert is a doctoral Initiative in New Rochelle, NY. student in the Department of Natural Naoko Maruyama works for Bureau Shanti Karanjit is a senior associate for Resources and Environmental Sciences Veritas in Yokohama, Japan. ICF International in New Delhi, India at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Beth Mburu works as a project assistant Champagne. Mark Kasinskas is a consultant for Innovations for Poverty Action in with Ferrucci & Walicki and lives in Nigel Gurnett is a data analyst intern for Nairobi, Kenya. Cheshire, CT. Ceres in Boston, MA. Jennifer McIvor is an environmental Kelsey Kidd is an associate project Achim Halpaap is the associate director coordinator for MidAmerican Energy scientist for Weston Solutions in of the training department and head Company at the Walter Scott Jr. Energy Tempe, AZ. of the environment unit at UNITAR, in Center in Council Bluffs, IA. Geneva, Switzerland. Lucas Knowles is a wind energy policy Kyle Meister is a certification forester analyst for Windward Consulting and Zeke Hausfather is chief energy scientist for Scientific Certification Systems in lives in Anchorage, Alaska. for Climate Culture in New York, NY. Emeryville, CA. Scott Laeser lives in Argyle, WI. Amy Heinemann is a renewable energy Adam Melnick is an associate for policy analyst for the Database of State Poorva Gupta Lalbhai has an internship Beveridge & Diamond PC in New Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency with the Centre for Environmental York, NY. at the North Carolina Solar Center in Planning and Technology in Ahmedabad, Jihoon Min lives in Brooklyn, NY Raleigh, NC. India. Tara Moberg is a freshwater scientist at Troy Hill is a doctoral student at Yale Dan Leistra is an associate with The Nature Conservancy in Pennsylvania. F&ES in New Haven, CT. Industrial Economics in Boston, MA. Baruani Mshale is a doctoral student in Thomas Hodgman is an associate of James Leslie is a carbon finance officer Ann Arbor, MI. the Timber Group at Equator LLC in for the United Nations Development Seattle, WA. Programme, EEG, in Lima, Peru. Stuart Murray is an attorney with Gowling La Fleur Henderson LLP and Patrick Holmes is a conservation Jennifer Lewis is the assistant director lives in Waterloo, IL. program coordinator for the Colorado of the Center for Latin American Conservation Trust in Denver, CO. and Caribbean Studies at New York Tamara Muruetagoiena lives in University in New York, NY. Branford, CT. Jed Holtzman lives in San Francisco, CA. Innocent Liengola is the Salonga Maung Moe Myint is a senior technical Laura Hopkins is an associate national Park project director for consultant for SNV Bhutan in Thimphu, at Beveridge & Diamond, PC, in the Wildlife Conservation Society in Bhutan. Washington, DC. Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. John Nixon lives in Berkeley, CA. Rita Hudetz is an associate of the Qi Feng Lin is energy science associate Corporate Consulting Group for Booz Jennie Nolon is a staff attorney for the for Climate Culture in New York, NY. Allen Hamilton in McClean, VA. Land Use Law Center at Pace Law School Yi-Wen Lin is a forester for the NYC in White Plains, NY. Thomas James currently lives in Parks and Recreation Department in Mongolia and will soon begin a doctoral New York, NY. degree at Yale F&ES ...... yale school of forestry & environmental studies 33 Class of 2008 Update continued

Matthew Oden works as the recently Jeffrey Ross is a Master’s of Philosophy Jason Weiner is associate director and established sustainability manager at student at Universitetet i Tromso in staff attorney for Ventura Coastkeeper in the University of Southern California. Norway. Malibu, CA.

Peterson Olum is a scientist for Dow Edan Rotenberg is an associate attorney Robert (Bo) White is a green investor at Agrosciences in Indianapolis, IN. for Earthjustice in New York, NY. Kuh Green Investments.

Daniel Peerless is the associate director Angela Rutherford is a GIS specialist at Erik Winegar is a staff specialist for of Gray Is Green in New Haven, CT. Harmony Design and Engineering in air quality at AECOM Environment in Driggs, ID. Sacramento, CA. Cornelia Pinchot is a doctoral student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Teresa Sarroca works for The Forests Julie Witherspoon is a project Dialogue as their program manager and coordinator for Urban Villages in Sergio Pineda lives in Bogota, Colombia, lives in New Haven, CT. Denver, CO. and is working on implementing a geographic information system for an Meredith Sattler is a Master’s student at Christopher Yuan-Farrell is a land urban policy institute. the Yale School of Architecture in New Protection Fellow for Colorado Open Haven, CT. Lands in Lakewood, CO. Lili Pirbazari is an environmental specialist at the NASA Ames Research Jeramy Shays lives in Washington, D.C. Kimberly Yuan-Farrell is a program Center in Calilfornia. manager at The Park People in Yuliya Shmidt is a regulatory analyst Denver, CO. Samuel Price is an analyst for for the California Public Utilities International Forestry Investment Commission in San Francisco, CA. Katie Zaidel Salipante is an Advisors in Cambridge, MA. environmental health consultant for Mark Sloan is a stewardship forester Jonathan Borak and Company in New Tingting Quan is an environmental for the Ministry of Forests and Range in Haven, CT. management consultant for nestle Campbell River, British Columbia. Waters North America in Greenwich, CT. Carolina Zambrano Barragan is Ecuador’s Peyton Smith is a doctoral student in soil national climate change director at the Jamie Spivey Quigg works as the microbial ecology at the University of Ministry of the Environment in Quito. sustainability manager for Grays Harbor Wisconsin, Madison. Paper in Hoquiam, WA. Yong Zhao is a doctoral student at Yale Jing Su is China Program Director at the School of F&ES in New Haven, CT. Micha Rahder is a doctoral student in American Council on Renewable Energy anthropology in Santa Cruz, CA. in Washington, D.C. Xiaohong Zhou is a research assistant at Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT. Caroline Raisler lives in Northampton, Colleen Sullivan lives in Washington, D.C. MA. Lu Sun is a doctoral student in Paula Randler is in her second year of her environmental microbiology at the Do you know where these Presidential management Fellowship Harvard School of Engineering and classmates are? as a natural resource specialist for the Applied Sciences in Boston, MA. USDA Forest Service in Washington, D.C. Anshuman Tiwari lives in New Haven, CT. Heather Colman-McGill Catherine Rawson lives in New Haven, CT. Jorge Figueroa Chisato Tomimura lives in Tokyo, Japan. Bella Gordon Korinti Recalde is in the Environmental Terry Unger lives in Laurel, MD. Kristin Hesser Health & Safety Leadership Program at Elizabeth Jones United Technologies in Hartford, CT. Brenna Vredeveld is a junior professional associate for The World Bank in Lisa Leombruni Ashley Roberts is a community organizer Washington, DC. Jing Li in the Powder River Basin Resource Zachary Parisa Council in Sheridan, Wyoming. Rebecca Watters is a project manager Daniel Tessini for the Northern Rockies Conservation Michael Robertson is a CFA and general Cooperative in Jackson, WY. partner at Industrial Symbiosis Capital.

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F&ES Career Development For Employer Representatives We Offer:

contact information 1. access to our online global erecruiting outreach (geo) Peter Otis, Director, 203.432.8920, [email protected] program designed for posting your internships and jobs Kathy Douglas, Associate Director, 203.436.4830, This password-protected site enables current students and [email protected] alumni/ae to search jobs and internships posted by the CDO Mariann Adams, Administrative Assistant, 203.432.5100, and employers, research registered employers, and network [email protected] with employer contacts. More and more employers have been posting senior level positions onto GeO. congratulations, members of the class of 2009… hello, class of 2008 and all f&es alumni! 2. access to students’ resumes though our geo program and on-line resume books The Career Development Office remains a resource available for you even after graduation. We are eager to help each of 3. an eagerness to receive e-mailed internship and job you in your capacities as both job-seeking individuals and announcements for posting in our system also as representatives of your employing organization trying If you are an employer seeking to hire other F&ESers, to identify talented summer interns and post-graduation please visit http://environment.yale.edu/doc/822/job_and_ employees. We hope you will return to F&ES to speak about internship_posting_instructions/ for information on how to and share your post-graduation achievements with the F&ES post your opportunities with the CDO. community. 4. on-campus presentation and interviewing facilities to for job seekers with all levels of experience, we urge you promote opportunities you have to use these services: 5. career fairs (upcoming – fifteenth duke yale 1. online environmental job and internship opportunity environmental recruiting fair, feb. 5, 2010, washington, resources in the global erecruiting outreach (geo) program dc, and the sixth all ivy environmental and sustainable designed to assist you in searching and locating jobs development career fair on feb. 26, 2010, new york city). http://environment.yale.edu/alumni-alumnae/career- As F&ES alumni/ae, you will always have access to GeO fairs/ with all of the same functions that you had as a student. To access the login page of the GeO Program, please visit http:// yalefesgeo.experience.com/er/security/login.jsp Spread the Word! Admissions

2. a comprehensive web site (environment.yale.edu/careers) Do you know someone who would make a great F&ES Visit the F&ES website and review the resources available student, an individual passionate about environmental issues to you, especially under the career development for and intent on advancing their career? Please promote Yale alumni/ae section found at http://environment.yale.edu/ F&ES! alumni-alumnae/Career-Development/. Within this section, you’ll see links to assist you with networking, job resources, You can help shape our future – attend an upcoming interviewing, salary negotiations, as well as information for Admissions event, encourage friends, colleagues or students international students. to apply, or meet with prospective students in your local area. There are many ways for alumni to stay active and connected 3. the yale career network and yale on-line alumni to F&ES. Please keep in touch. directory The full calendar of upcoming events and event registration The links for both of them can be found at: http://aya.yale. information can be found at https://apply.environment.yale. edu/. While inquiries about specific jobs are discouraged, edu/events/?country=*. students and alumni may contact alumni/ae about their organizations and general career opportunities. Many thanks for your participation!

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