Center for Environment & Society
Internships and Fellowships
The Center emphasizes learning by doing. We engage in local and regional issues with and eye toward the transferability of ideas, looking not just at the science needed to solve our most pressing environmental problems, but also at the social implications of our work, the needs of our community, and the social or cultural acceptability of solutions to environmental issues.
The Center awards 6 to 10 competitive internships a year, and one of our most important goals is helping students achieve theirs. Project-based learning gives students the opportunity to integrate the science, law, economics, politics, aesthetics and ethics that influence environmental decision-making at the local and national level. CES hopes to endow students with a vision that, no matter what careers they choose, will permanently enrich their lives and make them problem-solvers, explorers and stewards of the world.
Meet the Fellows
Maureen Sentman
CES Fellow
msentman3@washcoll.edu
Maureen Sentman '10 interns with the Center, working to advance its mission by documenting progress and spotlighting the various environmental projects taking place throughout the Spring 2008 semester by use of various mutlimedia techniques. Her documentaries on the Eastern Shore's culture and conservation efforts have achieved local fame, and she plans to one day publish her photos of rural routes and landscapes from the upper Eastern Shore. She and her family devote much of their time to volunteering with the WC, Sassafras, and Cecil County chapters of Ducks Unlimited, the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, and other land preservation efforts. She enjoys traveling, photography, and the great outdoors.
Danielle Aloisio
CES Fellow
daloisio2@washcoll.edu
Danielle Aloisio '08 works with the President's Climate Action Commitment on climate change and carbon emissions. She is studying student and faculty/staff travel habits and presenting them using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Through this research, plans for carbon emission cutting will be implemented at Washington College and in the Chestertown community. Danielle has previously interned at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, FL, working in the Ecotoxicology lab. She worked with fellow scientists examining how the elusive "red tide" toxins travel through food chains. She is an Environmental Studies major with a minor in history and is writing her Senior Capstone on agricultural effects on Urieville Lake. Danielle also works in the Miller library, is an active member and Vice President of Student Environmental Alliance, a member of ODK, the national leadership honor society, and Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society. After Washington College, Danielle plans to continue doing work with water quality and analysis.
Ashton Kluttz
CES Fellow
akluttz2@washcoll.edu
Ashton Kluttz '08 interns with the Center, collecting data that will aid in urban greening, climate action protection and carbon emission reduction efforts for Washington College and the Town of Chestertown. Ashton has previously interned with Wye Research and Education Center in Wye Mills, Maryland where she worked with scientists in testing and examining endocrine disruption in amphibians and fish. She is an Environmental Studies major with a minor in Earth and Planetary Systems. Ashton is also involved in the Skeet and Trap club, ODK, Ducks Unlimited, and is a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority.
Melody Warner
CES Fellow
mwarner2@washcoll.edu
Melody Warner '08 interns with the Center at Chino Farms, censusing birds in various grasslands habitats and using the census data to analyze bird numbers and see if any species are increasing or decreasing over the years. She's also assisting with bird banding, which requires removing birds from mist nets, and writing down their species, age, weight, wing length, fat, and finally actually banding them. This data is used as another method of censusing bird numbers. Melody is an environmental studies major and has always loved the outdoors and enjoys outdoor adventure activities such as kayaking, hiking, skiing, and canoeing. She plans to move to Oregon when she graduates.
Watch a Sustainability Feature produced and narrated by CES intern Maureen Sentman.
Watch video featuring CES intern Melody Warner at the Chino Farms Bird Banding Station.
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