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August 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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Welcome, Lloyd and Kelly!
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We are excited to welcome Lloyd Anderson and Kelly Bushnell to the Williams-Mystic team beginning this fall!
Lloyd is joining Williams-Mystic as the new full-time Assistant Professor of Oceanography. Lloyd completed his undergraduate degree at Bowdoin College, where he investigated intertidal chemistry variations in clam flats, and completed his Ph.D. at Columbia University, where he analyzed the chemistry of fossil planktic foraminiferal shells buried in sediments under the deep ocean to assess surface ocean carbon chemistry, atmospheric CO2 levels, and ocean temperatures in the Cenozoic Era. He is looking forward to working with Williams-Mystic students to explore the coastal ocean and study how smaller-scale clues gained on field trips and in the laboratory inform our understanding of broader oceanographic phenomena.
Kelly, a.k.a. “Dr. Kelpy” is returning to Williams-Mystic as a visiting literature professor for the Fall 2023 semester. Kelly’s PhD is from the University of London, where she also taught. In addition to teaching at Williams-Mystic in 2020 she has recently been a Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. Her research focuses on the poetics of marine life, including essays for scholarly and general audiences on the literary history of cephalopods, the whale's body as palimpsestic text, and Indigenous ecological knowledge in Arctic Ocean literature. Her home base is in Seattle on Coast Salish Land, and she's thrilled to be back in Mystic for Fall 2023.
Please join us in giving Lloyd and Kelly a warm Williams-Mystic welcome!
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Williams-Mystic is saying “sea you later” to two members of its admissions team.
Meg O’Brien and Evan McAlice joined Williams-Mystic in July 2021 ahead of the program’s first semester following the Covid-19 pandemic, helping usher the program back into in-person learning. Since then, Meg and Evan have spent the last two years meeting and interviewing incredible students from across the country, aiding the faculty and staff on field seminars, and falling in love with the Williams-Mystic community.
We are deeply thankful for their personal and professional contributions to Williams-Mystic, and they will be sorely missed. Thank you, Meg and Evan!
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Now Hiring: Asst. Director of Admissions and Enrollment
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Williams-Mystic is now hiring a new Assistant Director of Admissions and Enrollment. The full job description including the salary band can be found at the following link (type 302552 in keyword search). We will begin reviewing applications on September 5.
Reporting to the Executive Director, the Asst. Director of Admission and Enrollment is responsible for the strategic recruitment, enrollment, and talent acquisition of a diverse and global base of prospective students for the Williams-Mystic semester study-away program. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on initiatives related to the recruitment of first-generation college students, low-income students, students of color, and international students; and yielding a targeted number of matriculating students for each Fall and Spring semester.
We will also soon be hiring a new Assistant Director of Admissions and Communications. This position works closely with the Asst. Director of Admissions and Enrollment on recruitment, with a focus on communications, marketing and social media.
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Join Us for 2023 Alumni Day!
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You are invited to join us for Alumni Day on Saturday, September 23. We are delighted to welcome alumni and friends back to Mystic after a pandemic hiatus!
This new, casual one-day format was crafted by the WM Alumni Council and staff after hearing your feedback. Our goal was to make a gathering in Mystic accessible to all and a meaningful way to connect with the alumni community. We welcome your feedback and help as we move forward!
The full schedule of events and registration link can be found below.
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MSM Highlight: To Brava and Back
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The Fall 2023 semester is underway, and our new students kicked off their semester by exploring the Seaport in a fun and educational way!
To Brava and Back is an interactive, thoughtfully gamified visitor program designed by the 2022 Reimagining New England Histories interns (including Bridget DeLaney-Hall S17) at Mystic Seaport Museum. Centered around the life of Captain John Theofilo Gonsalves, the last whaling captain of the Charles W. Morgan, the experience invites guests to wander the Seaport and solve puzzles to learn about the lives of mariners of color and Cape Verdean culture.
F23 had a great time working together and learning about the lives of diverse mariners and the Cape Verdean diasporic experience.
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Update Us: We Want to Hear From You!
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Did you get an email that looks like the one below from us? If so, please spend a few brief moments updating Williams-Mystic on your current information by clicking the link in the email. We want to stay in touch and learn what you're up to! (If we are asking again for information you shared years ago, we appreciate your patience: as technology changes, we have lost access to some of your career and family data, and we want to get it right!)
If you didn't get this email, reply with your best contact info and we'll reach out! Thank you!
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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
- Assistant Director of Admissions and Enrollment, Williams-Mystic, Mystic, CT
- Managing Director of Advancement, New England Science & Sailing Foundation, Stonington, CT
- Director of Advocacy, Audubon Society of Rhode Island, Smithfield, RI
- Professor of Practice in Biology, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
- Assistant Manager - Landscape Management, Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY
- Program Manager - Plastics Initiative, The Ocean Foundation, Washington, D.C.
- Grants Administrator, Coastal States Organization, Washington, D.C.
- Seascapes Director - Western Pacific, WWF, Washington, D.C.
- Community Outreach Assistant, Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary Program, Pensacola, FL
- Vice President of Marketing, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA
- Environmental Education Specialist, Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District, Monterey, CA
- Sustainable Fisheries Manager, Waitt Institute, San Diego, CA
- Community Outreach Manager, Sonoma Land Trust, Santa Rosa, CA
- Response Dispatcher, The Marine Mammal Center, Kailua-Kona, HI
- Director of Strategic Communications, Blue Ventures, various locations
Internships, Fellowships, and Postdocs
- Fall Intern (Lab & Research Tech), Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester, MA
- Ocean Acidification Lab Intern, Downeast Institute, Beals, ME
- Maryland Sea Grant Coastal Communities Collaborations Internship, Maryland Sea Grant, College Park, MD
- Assistant Research Scientist - Postdoctoral Scholar in spatial modeling of Arctic marine biodiversity, University of Maryland, Frostburg, MD
- Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Intern, Ebb Carbon, San Carlos, CA
- Postdoctoral Scholar: Arctic change detection, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Alaska, Juneau, AK
- Marine Programme Intern, Mountains to Sea Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- Blue Parks Science Internship, Marine Conservation Institute, remote
- Remote Sensing Postdoctoral Researcher, Point Blue, remote
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