Alumni Fellows
Former Fellows - Where are they now?
Sarah Bayer-Whitley Fellow 2009-2011
Sarah Bayer-Whitley spent two fellowship years at Gaiser Middle School working with Charlene Shea and her 7th grade life science students. She currently is a Master's student in WSUV’s Environmental Science Program. Her research has focused on fisheries ecology in estuaries along the Gulf, Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Her thesis research focuses on how landscape structure influences nekton distribution and diet in a restoring freshwater tidal wetland near Sacramento, CA.
Jennifer Blaine Fellow 2008 - 2009
Jen spent her fellowship year at La Center Middle School working with Jeremy Ecklund and 7th & 8th grade Science students. She completed her M.S. degree in Environmental Science in December of 2010. Currently she is a Coral Reef Ecology Intern at the Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE) in Bonaire.
Alexa Carleton Fellow 2010 - 2011
Alexa continues to pursue her M.S. in Environmental Science at WSU Vancouver. Her research focuses on the endangered Fender's blue butterfly in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. She currently works as a educator with the City of Vancouver Watershed Monitoring Program.
Daniel Crowther Fellow 2008 - 2009
Dan spent his fellowship year at La Center Middle School working with Kristy Schneider and 6th grade science students. He continues to pursue his M.S. degree in Environmental Science and is currently writing his thesis . Dan spent Summer 2010 working for Oregon Dept of Fish and Wildlife, in the Marine Reserves Program. In October 2010, he will began the Mark Hershman Marine Policy Fellowship, coordinated through Washington Sea Grant. He is working at the Dept of Ecology, and closely with the WA State Ocean Caucus on building a framework for Marine Spatial Planning for the state.
Kassi Dallavis Fellow 2009 - 2010
Kassi spent her fellowship year at Camas High School working with Jennifer Dean and the 9th grade Science and Technology Magnet students. She completed her M.S. degree in Environmental Science in December 2010. She is currently working at Iberdrola Renewables in Portland.
Bridget Deemer Fellow 2009 - 2010
Bridget spent her fellowship year at La Center Middle School working with Kristy Schneider and 6th grade science students. She completed her MS degree in Environmental Science in May 2010. Bridget will be continuing her research in Dr. John Harrison's lab to pursue a Ph.D. through the NSF funded Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program: Nitrogen System: Policy-oriented Integrated Research and Education.
Jennifer Duerr Fellow 2008 - 2009
Jennifer spent her fellowship year at Gaiser Middle School working with Charlene Shea and 7th grade science students. She completed her MS degree in Environmental Science in December 2009. She is currently conducting a shellfish assessment along the central Oregon coast for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Marine Resources Program.
Josh Emerson Fellow 2010 - 2011 
Josh spent his fellowship year at La Center Middle School working
with Kristy Schneider and her 6th grade science studetns. He is currently finisihing his M.S. in Environmental Science at WSUV. His thesis research focuses on the zooplankton community composition
of reservoirs in teh Columbia and Snake Rivers, specifically the upstream spread of the invasive copepod Pseudodiaptomus forbesi.
Laura Friedenberg Fellow 2008 - 2009
Laura spent her fellowship year at Camas High School working with Jennifer Dean and the 9th grade Science and Technology Magnet students. She completed her MS degree in Environmental Science in December 2009. Laura is currently working at the Washington State Department of Ecology in Olympia. She is in the marine monitoring unit training as a flight technician on the marine flight program which uses a sea plane to sample different stations around the Puget Sound and in Grays Harbor and Willapa. They are sampling water quality parameters in order to monitor environmental conditions over the long term.
Kara Goodwin Fellow 2009 - 2010
Kara spent her fellowship year at Gaiser Middle School working with Meagan Graves and 6th grade science students. She completed her MS degree in Environmental Science in May 2010. She is now working at the Environmental Protection Agency in Corvallis, Oregon.
Andy Harwood Fellow 2009 - 2010
Andy spent his fellowship year at Liberty Middle School working with Sarah Kankelberg and 7th grade science students. He completed his MS degree in Environmental Science Summer 2010. Andy is working with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife researching the effectiveness of alternative commercial fishing gear in the Columbia. They are testing purse-seines, beach seines, and fish traps to see if they have lower mortality rates than the current method of commercial fishing, gillnets. The results so far have been extremely encouraging. Gillnets work by using an 8 1/2 inch mesh size, give or take, and as fish swim upstream into the nets, their head passes thr style="clear:both"ough the holes and their delicate gills get trapped in the net. The alternative gear uses a mesh size of 3 1/2 inches and just acts like a wall to the fish, allowing fish to be collected with very low impacts, and wild salmon and non-target fish can be released unharmed.
Erica Henry Fellow 2009 - 2010
Erica spent her fellowship year at La Center Middle School working with Jeremy Ecklund and 7th & 8th grade Science students. She completed her M.S. degree in Environmental Science in December 2010. Currently, Erica is a research assistant at North Carolina State University. Her research emphasis is on the Miami Blue and other rare butterfly species of the Florida Keys.
Tyler Hicks Fellow 2010 - 2011
Tyler spent his fellowship year at Liberty Middle school working with Marcie Mueller and her 7th grade Life Science students. He continues to work on his Ph.D. at WSU Vancouver.
Joel Quenette Fellow 2008 - 2009
Joel spent his fellowship year at Camas High School working with Katy Mallett and 9th grade physical science students. He completed his MS degree in Environmental Science Summer 2010. He is continuing to work in the Aquatic Ecology Research Lab at WSU Vancouver.
Sean Rooney Fellow 2009-2011
Sean spent two fellowship years at La Center Middle School working with Laurie Cripe and 6th, 7th, and 8th grade integrated science students. He continues to pursue his PhD in Environmental Science at WSUV. His research is focused on groundfish and deep-sea coral and sponge habitats off the coast of Washington and Oregon. He also works on developing models to predict the distribution and abundance patterns of these species. He recently participated in a research cruise off the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, where he used a remotely operated vehicle to collect data on coral and sponge habitats that will be used by the Pacific Fishery Management Council to determine how to best protect these long lived and biologically important resources.
Rhiannon Thomas Fellow 2010-2011
Rhiannon spent her fellowship year at Pleasant Valley Middle School working with Amy Pace and her 6th grade science students. She continues to pursue her M.S. degree at WSU Vancouver. Her research focuses on the endangered Fender's blue butterfly which is found only in the Willamette Valley, Oregon.
Aaron Todd Fellow 2010-2011
Aaron spent his fellowship year at Camas High School working with Kathryn Mallett and 9th grade physical science and chemistry students. He continutes to work on his MS in Environmental Science at WSUV. In addition, Aaron is currently working at an environmental testing laboratory in the Portland metro area conducting testing for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
Ray Yurkewycz Fellow 2008 - 2009
Ray spent his fellowship year at Gaiser Middle School working with Meagan Graves and 6th grade science students. He completed his MS degree in Environmental Science in May 2010. Ray currently works as the Science Education Coordinator at the Mount St. Helens Institute.
