Gabbie, the dog, and Skunk, the kitten. After trying out several careers over the years, Julia now works as the stewardship coordinator and educator for the Damariscotta Lake Watershed Association. She would love to hear from other alumni: juliagdavis@gmail.com. Elizabeth O'Leary was second author of "Phylogenetic Distribution and Identification of Fin-winged Fruits" published in Botanical Review, 76:1, 1-82. While teaching Spanish at the Boys Latin School of Maryland, Kristen Tubman is also promoting social and environmental awareness and positive change.
2004
Allison Rogers Furbish is enjoying life with husband Shawn and new baby Amelia, born February 28, 2010.
2006 Jeanne Lambert has completed her MFA in design at the University of Texas. Her thesis exhibition investigated the capacity of book design to draw our attention to the often-overlooked magic in the mundane. She is moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico to work at the exhibition design firm Andrew Merriell and Associates.
2007 Laura Briscoe and Matt Lavoie were married June 21, 2009, on Antelope Island in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. They are now living in Chicago, where Laura works at the Field Museum as a research/collections assistant in the botany department, and Matt works at a preschool and afterschool program. Matt is enrolled in the Arcturus Waldorf teacher training program, and Laura has been admitted to the master's program in plant biology and conservation at Northwestern University, where she will continue her study of liverworts with fieldwork in Chile. Anna Goldman recently moved to Clanshaven Farm, her family's fifty-acre plot in Kansasville, Wisconsin. She is working to turn it into an organic farm.
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Sarah Haughn and Wanyakha Timbiti Moses are the awed and thrilled parents of Nora Rose Nabushawo, born on April 3, 2010. Despite arriving five weeks early, she greeted the world in perfect health weighing 6 pounds 13 ounces.
2009 Joanna Cosgrove is spearheading a new community garden project in Baltimore, Maryland. From the Mahindra United World College of India, Michael Griffith writes, "I've been very well, enjoying the busiest and most adventure-filled year of my life. I was recently given a new position. I'm going to head MUWCI's revamped co-curricular program, Triveni, in addition to teaching what will now be a half-load of English. My job is supporting student self development, and my title is almost too bombastic to repeat: Head of Experiential and Community Learning."
2010 On December 22, 2009, Kyra Sparrow-Pepin Chapin and Miles W. Sparrow-Pepin Chapin were married at the Mountain Top Inn in Chittenden, Vermont. It was an intimate fireside wedding; the bride and groom were surrounded by family and friends including fellow COA students and alumni Cora Sellers, Evelyn Sandusky, Noah Kleiner, Evan Griffith '11, Tasha Ball '12, Aly Bell, Mikus Abolins-Abols, and Megan Williams '09.
Faculty & Community Notes In addition to those reported elsewhere, Tom Adelman, grants manager, notes the following grants to COA: a grant from the Partridge Foundation for $43,325 to cover capital improvements at Beech Hill Farm; and two grants from the Maine Space Grant Consortium: $6,000 for first-year scholarships and another for $5,000 for faculty members Nishanta Rajakaruna '94 and John Anderson to study the repopulation of
Mt. Desert Rock plant communities in the wake of Hurricane Bill last August. Allied Whale co-hosted the Northeast Regional Stranding Conference in Bar Harbor May 6–9 with the Maine Department of Marine Resources, and the Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center at the University of New England. Sean Todd, who directs Allied Whale, served as scientific chair. Steve Katona, former COA president, presented a paper and Bill McLellan '88, North Carolina State Stranding Coordinator, gave a whale necropsy workshop. The conference was organized by COA MPhil candidate Jacqueline Bort.
In February, John Anderson, the William H. Drury, Jr. Chair in Evolution, Ecology and Natural History, was formally initiated into the Linnean Society in London under the gaze of the portraits of ("I hope approving") Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. The Linnean Society is where both naturalists' original papers on natural selection were first read. The book John signed as an inductee would have been signed by both Darwin and Wallace. While in England John visited Selborne, the home of noted nineteenth century naturalist Gilbert White for a book project, and examined letters and sermons by White at the Linnean Society. He had lunch with Amanda Muscat '06, who is completing her PhD at the University of Southhampton examining illegal immigration into her native Malta. He also had dinner with Jennifer Rock '93. Week Three of her first term at COA, Molly Anderson, the Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems, gave the keynote address at COA's Earth Day celebration: "Is Sustainability for Sale? The Role of Consumption in Sustainability." She also met in New York with local grassroots food justice activists, the Secretary General of FoodFirst International Action Network, and others from the United States and the European Union for a discussion of international cooperation to promote food sovereignty and food rights.