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Current Post Graduate Fellows
State Science Policy Fellowship
Fellowship at:
Maryland Department of Natural ResourcesCool Facts:
Alexandria Casteel holds a PhD from Dartmouth College and previously served as a Life on a Sustainable Planet Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. At the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, she helps bring the work of the Watershed and Climate Services unit's 11 centers together under one 10-year strategic plan.
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Maryland Department of the EnvironmentCool Facts:
Megan Delatte-Guidry is working with the Maryland Department of the Environment's Climate Change Program on the development and implementation of innovative climate strategies. In her spare time, she can be found reading, cycling, cooking, or on a walk in her neighborhood park.
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University of Maryland Center for Environmental ScienceCool Facts:
Outside of work, she enjoys the beach, photography, cooking, and spending quality time with family and friends.Science Management and Policy Internship
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Maryland Sea Grant CollegeCool Facts:
In her free time, she likes to go out for walks at local parks, cook, bake, read, and occasionally make clay trinkets!Maryland Law and Policy Fellowship
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Agriculture Law Education Initiative and Maryland Sea Grant CollegeCool Facts:
Originally from Nebraska, she enjoys spending time outdoors running, hiking, and fishing. She speaks English, Spanish, and French and is passionate about making environmental law accessible across language and cultural boundaries.Program Announcements
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
