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March 2023 eGam
A monthly newsletter about the latest happenings in the Williams-Mystic community, for alumni and friends of the program.
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- Carlton Marine Science Center Installs New Aquarium System
- Calling All WM Alumni: Policy Students Need Your Help!
- Congrats to the Crowley Scholars of S23!
- As Seen In California...
- Learning from Leaders
- Support Williams-Mystic
- Jobs, Internships, and Other Opportunities
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| Carlton Marine Science Center Installs New Aquarium System
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We are excited to announce that the Carlton Marine Science Center has undergone a bit of a makeover. Over the last few months, Williams-Mystic has been working with Something Fishy, Inc. to install a brand new state-of-the-art aquarium system.
The main aquarium system is in a new lower-level wet lab of Carlton, with a touch tank also installed in the teaching lab. These new tanks are already occupied by a myriad of critters being used for student science projects, and we are excited to see these tanks fill up more throughout the semester. Thank you to the Williams Class of 1963 Sustainable Development Fund for the funding to make Carlton a site for exciting experiments for years to come.
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| Calling All WM Alumni: Policy Students Need Your Help!
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Some of you may remember policy snack, but all of you remember searching
high and low for the best Marine Policy research you could find for your policy paper. While the crunch for resources is the same in S’23, our students write Policy Briefs now, proposing policy recommendations on current and unresolved issues facing our coasts and oceans.
WE NEED YOU! Alumni – who and what do you know? With more and more people working remotely, it is challenging for our students to connect with active stakeholders involved in these issues. Can you help? If you are involved or know someone involved on any level with any of these topics, please email Katy Hall at crh1@williams.edu. This is another great way to give back to Williams-Mystic – to the direct benefit of our students who are looking to make a difference and inform these current and exciting issues impacting not only our coasts and oceans, but the communities that depend on those resources. See what our students are researching in Policy this semester below. Thank you for connecting with students in such an awesome way!
- Overfishing Florida Coral Reefs and Protection of the Goliath Groupe
- Chesapeake Bay Menhaden and Striped Bass Fisheries in Conflict
- Regulating Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Impacting the Maine Economy
- Privatization of Public Beaches in Puerto Ric
- Sea Level Rise, Coastal Development and the Gullah Geechee Communities
- The Impact of Plastic Bans on Low-income Communities in NY
- Disposal of Dredge Spoils within the Atchafalaya River Basin and Their Potential Uses in Restoration of the Basin
- Vessel Speed and North Atlantic Right Whale Mortality Along the Atlantic Coastline: The Right Choice
- Examining the Proposed Texas Harbor Island Desalination Facility
- Deep-Sea Mining in the United States: Dodged Bullet or Missed Opportunity
- The Ocean Shores Elementary Tsunami Shelter as a Case Study for Tsunami Preparedness Along Washington's West Coast
- Snake River Dams: Debating Removal
- Northern Chumash Marine Sanctuary and Wind Energy: Can they Coexist
- Offshore Wind and Fishing Compensation
- Vulnerability and Disability: The Failures of Inclusive Emergency Planning in Coastal Disasters
- When the Levee Breaks: Washington’s Chehalis River Dam
- Balancing the Need for Exploratory Seismic Surveying in the Gulf of Mexico with Noise Pollution
- Repercussions on the Endangered Rice’s Whale Population
- Rice’s Whale and Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Exploration: Examining Habitat Protections
- Abortion at Sea: State v. Federal Maritime Jurisdiction
- Proposed Cruise Ship Ban In Bar Harbor, Maine
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| Congrats to the Crowley Scholars of S23!
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During the Pacific Coast Field Seminar earlier this month, our students had the opportunity to take a cruise aboard a Crowley tugboat in San Francisco. It was a fabulous opportunity for our students to learn about Williams-Mystic's longstanding partnership with Crowley Maritime Corporation which has allowed students to pursue internships and careers.
While aboard the tugboat, two of our current students, Jessica Jiang and Ari Quasney, were named this semester's Crowley Scholars. Congratulations to Jessica and Ari!
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One of our favorite things about field seminars is meeting up with alums on the road! Earlier this month on the Pacific field seminar, the class ran into Lili Hayes S86 at the San Francisco Airport (pictured here with staff Laurie Warren S89 and Tom Van Winkle P’F08 ); Met alums in San Francisco for a swizzle and catch up, and Nicole Dobroski F96 led the class in a tidepool exploration and discussion of her work on offshore wind as Chief of the Environmental Planning and Management Division for the California State Lands Commission.
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Learning from Leaders: Elder Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar, Linda Behnken F82, and Nakai Clearwater Northup
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At Williams-Mystic, a key part of experiential learning is developing relationships with leaders and changemakers who inspire and challenge our students. We’re delighted that these friends of Williams-Mystic are being recognized for their efforts, and we are honored they spend time with our students.
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Williams-Mystic congratulates longtime friend and field seminar partner Elder Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar on being named one of USA Today’s Women of the Year for 2023.
Parfait-Dardar was recognized by USA Today for her ongoing efforts to gain federal recognition for the Grand Caillou-Dulac Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, a cause she has been fighting for since 1996. Following the disastrous effects of Hurricane Ida in 2021, Parfait-Dardar organized groups to help her community recover, and she continues to aid in the protection of tribal populations against the impacts of climate change.
On the importance of federal recognition, Parfait-Dardar said, “We need access to so many resources, from education to health care, to economic development and infrastructure. You know, we need to be able to protect and preserve our lands and our waters and our sacred spaces.”
To read more about Elder Chief Shirell and the federal recognition process, read the article linked below:
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This month, Made in America’s “Farms Across America” series spotlighted the work of the Alaska Longline Fisherman’s Association, which has been championing sustainable fishing practices and preserving Alaska’s natural resources since 1978. Featured in this video is Linda Behnken F82, Executive Director of ALFA, along with friends of the program Eric Jordan and Stephen Rhoads. Williams-Mystic was honored to meet with all three of them during our field seminar in Alaska last fall, and we could not be more excited to see their work celebrated.
“It means that we're able to hand to the next generation of fishermen, to our kids, the same opportunities in the same healthy ocean that I found when I came up here 40 years ago.”
Click the link below to watch the video. If you are interested, Linda was also recently featured on an episode of Blue Frontier’s “Rising Tide” podcast, which is also linked below.
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“There’s nothing that means more to me than being a Pequot, than being a Narragansett, than being of this land.”
Check out this feature in NBC Connecticut’s “Connecticut in Color” series, featuring Nakai Clearwater Northup, Manager of Public Program at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and vice chair of the Tribe’s Natural Resources Protection Committee, who was recently named one of CT’s “40 Under 40”. This year, Williams-Mystic classes met with Northup for a “walk and talk” on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation to learn about Eastern Woodland tribal history and food sovereignty, which is directly related to the region’s maritime heritage.
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Jobs, internships, and other opportunities
Send job opportunities to wmalumni@williams.edu. Please include a link (if available) and specify whether you'd like us to include your name if we share the opportunity in our next eGam. You can also share job opportunities directly with the W-M community by posting on our Facebook and/or LinkedIn groups!
We've gathered the jobs below from a variety of sources -- some from web searches, and some from members of the W-M community.
Jobs
- Environmental Protection Fisheries Biologist 1 (Marine), CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), Old Lyme, CT
- Ecological Restoration Specialist - Dam Removal, Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration (DER), Boston, MA
- Marine Scientist, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science, Gloucester, MA
- Water Quality Monitoring Program Laboratory Assistant, The Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA
- Marine Resource Specialist II, Maine Department of Marine Resources, Boothbay Harbor, ME
- Environmental Protection Specialist (EJ Program: Grants/Engagement/Policy), Environmental Protection Agency, New England
- Lecturer, Division of Marine Sciences, The School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Southampton, NY
- IT Project Manager, NOAA Office of the Chief Information Officer, Silver Spring, MD
- Fisheries Science Coordinator, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Arlington, VA
- Senior Communications Manager, Fisheries and Oceans, Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, DC
- Specialist (EJ Program: Grants/Engagement/Policy), Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC or Durham, NC
- Drinking Water Policy Coordinator, National Wildlife Federation, Ann Arbor, MI
- Budget Analyst, NOAA Research, Boulder, CO
- Physical Scientist, NOAA Research, Seattle, WA
- Biological Science Technician, NOAA Fisheries, Honolulu, HI
Internships, Fellowships, and Postdocs
- Fisheries Policy and Management Intern, Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders' Alliance, USA (Remote
- Fisheries Communications and Public Relations Intern, Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders' Alliance, USA (Remote)
- Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Plankton Ecology, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME
- Education and Engagement Intern, National Wildlife Federation, Atlanta, GA
- Postdoctoral Scholar Dryland Restoration, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
- Entomology/Marine Invertebrates Apprentice, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA
- USFS Invasive Plant Ecology Field Fellowship, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Corvallis, OR
- USFS Silviculture Summer Internship, US Forest Service / ORISE, Olympia, WA
- Fall Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Bermuda
- Manta Caribbean Project Volunteer, Manta Caribbean Project, Mexico
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