resulted in the formation of novel ecosystems that flourished during the transition from the last ice age to our current warm interglacial. I blog about this and other long-term perspectives at The Contemplative Mammoth (contemplativemammoth. wordpress.com). In August, I started as a Voss Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University where I'll be working with biogeographer Dov Sax and paleoeclimatologist Jim Russell. As in my dissertation, I'll be working on a project that brings a paleoperspective to a modern global change question." Follow her on Twitter: @JacquelynGill After more than five years teaching at the Chewonki Semester School, Marjolaine Whittlesey is now living in Portland, Maine, launching North Yarmouth Academy's French Mastery Program, and finishing up a master's thesis on French theater in Maine. When she has time, she hops on the planks of local community theaters.
2007 With the sponsorship of a graduate fellowship, Maria Lis Baiocchi has begun a PhD in anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her studies will focus on sociocultural anthropology. Charlie Fischer is assistant manager of the EMS store in Hadley, Massachusetts, and preparing for a summer climb of Mont Blanc, the birthplace of modern mountaineering and, at 4,810.45 meters, the highest point in western Europe.
University. She interned in the Corporate Communications office at the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network this summer and continues to work for the Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society in Springfield, Massachusetts, which she calls "a meaningful part of my life." She lives with her cat, Nokomis, whom she adopted after her COA internship at the Camden-Rockport Animal Rescue League. Kate's fife and drum corps, Connecticut Valley Field Music, traveled to Basel, Switzerland, for the 2012 Basel Muster in June, one of six US corps to perform in Basel and Liestal, Switzerland. Find them at facebook.com/ctvalleyfieldmusic.
2008 At the base of Jordan Pond, after a long hike, David Francis proposed to COA staff member Danielle Meier this spring. Their two cats were delighted with the merger, as they received celebratory wet food when the couple came home. (More on Dani under Dru Colbert in Community Notes.)
2009 Josh Helser-Howard and Madeline Helser-Howard ('11) were recently married. They have two rescue dogs, Odis and Elmer, two rescue cats, Kenmore and Reginald, and live in Richmond, Indiana. Josh co-manages 12 acres of land, most of which
Kate Sheely is studying for an MS in interactive media at Quinnipiac
is covered with organic gardens, berry bushes, and fruit trees, at Patchwork Gardens in nearby New Lebanon, Ohio. The farm has a CSA and year-round fresh produce: College of the Atlantic Magazine
patchworkgardens.net. As a children's librarian in town, Madeline organized a summer reading program around urban gardening and farming.
2010 Noah Hodgetts, who started a twoyear master's in urban and regional policy program at Northeastern University, received the first annual Tikkun Alum Award from the Rashi School. This past summer he interned for the Director of Policy Development and Implementation at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, doing a combination of policy, planning, and mapping work.
2011 In the inaugural class of service members, Grace Cherubino completed a year with FoodCorps during which she built and maintained three educational school and community gardens, and taught elementary school students about healthy eating, farming, and sustainability. She now has embarked on a completely different track — making Tiki mugs (ScallywagCeramics. com). She writes, "This is really exciting for me because since leaving COA I haven't been able to do ceramics, an art form that is very close to my heart!"
2012 After graduation, Matthew Doyle Olson, MPhil, moved to his hometown of Madison, Wisconsin and started a fellowship at Edgewood College in their sustainability leadership program, providing opportunities for graduate students and local leaders to talk about, plan for, and launch projects that will affect the city's future. Matthew is working for the Integrated Pest Management Institute to help design a fresh produce sustainability standard and rating system, identifying pesticide risk, fertilizer applications, water use, and energy use. Excited to be part of the process for this cutting-edge tool, he 41