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Past Post Graduate Fellows

State Science Policy Fellowship

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Fellowship at:

Maryland Department of Natural Resources

Cool Facts:

Natasha De La Cruz is working with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Chesapeake and Coastal Service unit with a plethora of environmental policy projects promoting coastal resilience and climate mitigation efforts across the state.
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Fellowship at:

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
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Fellowship at:

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Portrait of Michael Macon in a suit jacket standing in front of a window

Fellowship at:

Maryland Department of the Environment

Cool Facts:

Macon greatly enjoyed living in California and white water rafting in the Trinity Alps but is excited to return to his home state, where he enjoys sailing on the Chesapeake Bay and hiking in the Appalachian Mountains. He hopes to leverage his experience in public communications and interagency coordination to build bridges between the state and local communities to break down barriers for more resilient environmental policies.
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Fellowship at:

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Cool Facts:

Kayle’s research interests are broad but focus on ecological systems response to anthropogenic stressors. Her spare time is spent keeping up with her family, reading and exploring the east coast.
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Fellowship at:

Maryland Department of the Environment

Cool Facts:

Aubrey is deeply interested in applied, community-focused science that bridges the gap between natural science understanding and social applications of knowledge. She is also interested in combining natural and social science methods to measure environmental management impacts. In her free time, Aubrey enjoys rock climbing, hiking, cooking and baking, reading, theater, and spoiling her adorable cat.
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Fellowship at:

Maryland Environmental Service

Cool Facts:

Khurshid Jahan holds a Ph.D. in Geosciences at the University of Rhode Island, USA and a MSc in Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Recently she was awarded by the Rhode Island Society of Environmental Professionals to support her research on stormwater management. In addition, URI awarded her the 2019 John J. Fisher Memorial Award for excellence as a teaching assistant in geology. Her current research expands on this and explores relations between climate change, urbanization, environmental impact, and water quality degradation.

Maryland Law and Policy Fellowship

Kai Hardy smiles for a portrait. He's wearing a suit jacket and standing near a railing in a grassy area

Fellowship at:

Agriculture Law Education Initiative and Maryland Sea Grant College

Cool Facts:

While in law school, Hardy served as the environmental justice managing editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, playing basketball, reading, playing guitar, and watching movies.
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Fellowship at:

Agriculture Law Education Initiative and Maryland Sea Grant College

Cool Facts:

As an islander who grew up in Taiwan, her love for the land, coast, and ocean is the driving force behind her research and career path. She enjoys working in an interdisciplinary arena where law and science can complement each other in policy-making processes. Her recent research has been published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

Science Management and Policy Internship

Headshot of Hannah wearing a blue MDSG polo and standing in front of a plant wall.

Fellowship at:

Maryland Sea Grant College

Cool Facts:

Hannah graduated from North Carolina State University with degrees in Biological Oceanography and Zoology and a minor in Applied Ecology. Throughout her undergraduate career, she enjoyed learning about and participating in a mixture of ecological research and environmental management and policy. Hannah particularly enjoyed exploring the impacts of climate change on environmental and community health and was interested in working with an organization committed to addressing climate change.

Program Announcements

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Video Gallery

Sea Grant Film Explores a Diminishing Smithville

Smithville is a community on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, on the edge of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. A century ago, Smithville had more than 100 residents. Today, it has four, in two homes: an elderly couple, and one elderly woman and her son, who cares for her.

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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.
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