Environmental Science and Policy

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Members of the Microbial Biogeochemistry Lab: Matthew Erickson, Kristen Myers, Erin Morgan, Aaron Randolph (left to right)

My passion for the marine environment and its conservation was central to my decision to pursue a degree in Biology and Environmental Science at William and Mary.

Greg Hancock of W&M's Geology Department (left), assisted by student Marshall Popkin, collects data at a stormwater retention pond in James City County.

The Environmental Science and Policy Program at the College of William and Mary has received a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

As an Oregonian whose research focuses on the American West and modern American Indian history, I never imagined I would end up teaching in Tidewater, Virginia.

Emily Thompson '06 surveys turtles on Lake Matoaka, during her undergraduate days.

I've often heard the statistics about the large percentage of college graduates whose careers are unrelated to their undergraduate majors.

The entire Kenya contingent and friends.

You know you have reached Tumo Tumo, a small  agricultural town in the foothills of Mt. Kenya, when the crude paved road turns into a sticky clay path and the van driving you to your destination slows to a crawl in an attempt not to veer off the steep winding road to the valley below.

Anne Condon tracks bluebirds.

From 1929-1950 liquid mercury leaked into the South River as it meandered through an industrial section of Waynesboro, near Charlottesville, Virginia.

Political borders always struck me as artificial divisions given the interconnectedness of our global environment. Finding a way to transcend these boundaries has become my passion. And devising collaborative international solutions to global environmental problems has come to preoccupy my mind and heart.

Water runs under the bridge at Crim Dell, then where does it go? And what’s in that water, anyway?

My name is D. Gabriel Kauper.  In 2003, I co-founded the W&M Farmers and Gardeners Club for the purpose of forming a community of botany, nature and food enthusiasts to work regularly at local farms and pool our interests for other projects.

An occasional leech comes with the territory when you’re studying leaching and other aspects of stormwater retention, as does the occasional incident of equipment tampering.  At Ironbound, some curious soul had pulled the cable from its tube.

My motivation to attend William & Mary can be summed up in an image: a short, balding man with a dry sense of humor and a passion for all things feathered—Dr. Mitchell Byrd. His mentorship became one of the many benefits garnered in my four years at W&M.

Nothing is as charismatic as a bluebird, that nearly universal symbol of happiness and well being.