Anna is an Earlham College Environmental Sustainability major and Biology and Psychology minor.

E&S Lab Projects: Recreational Behaviors & Attitudes during COVID-19 pandemic (2025-2026), Nature’s contributions to people - evaluating the benefits of Earlham College’s Wildman Woods (2024)

After Earlham: Anna is applying for jobs and is thinking about graduate school focused on conservation social science.

Lena is an Earlham College Biology major.

E&S Lab Projects: Interacting effects of management and drought on grassland birds and plants (2025-2026).

Sarah is an Earlham College Biology major.

E&S Lab Projects: Interacting effects of management and drought on grassland birds and plants (2025).

Emerson is an Earlham College Environmental Sustainability major with interests in GIS, field research, and outdoor education.

E&S Lab Projects: Nature’s contributions to people - evaluating the benefits of Earlham College’s Wildman Woods (2024), Interacting effects of management and drought on grassland birds and plants (2025).

After Earlham: Emerson has been working for the Richmond Parks Department and is applying to graduate school.

Moises is an Earlham College Environmental Sustainability major with interests in art, conservation, and making environmental research more participatory.

E&S Lab Projects: Nature’s contributions to people - evaluating the benefits of Earlham College’s Wildman Woods (2024), Interacting effects of management and drought on grassland birds and plants (2025).

After Earlham: Moises plans to apply for graduate school.

Aija is an Earlham College Environmental Sustainability major.

E&S Lab Projects: Recreational Behaviors & Attitudes during COVID-19 pandemic (2025-2026), Nature’s contributions to people - evaluating the benefits of Earlham College’s Wildman Woods (2024), Interacting effects of management and drought on grassland birds and plants (2025).

After Earlham: Aija is applying for graduate school focused on botany and Indigenous conservation.

Sara is an Earlham College Biology major who adores birds and being outside.

E&S Lab Projects:‍ Long-term changes in brown-headed cowbird parasitism and abundance (2023)

Harley is an Earlham College Biology major with interests in large herbivore conservation and outdoor activities.

E&S Lab Projects: Interacting effects of management and drought on grassland birds and plants (2025-2026), Long-term changes in brown-headed cowbird parasitism and abundance (2023)

After Earlham: Harley is applying to graduate school focused on large mammals in Africa.

Megan is an Earlham College Biology major with interests in animal behavior and veterinary science.

E&S Lab Projects:‍ ‍Long-term changes in brown-headed cowbird parasitism and abundance (2023)

After Earlham: Megan is working at a zoo and applying to veterinary school.

Sylvan is an Earlham College Environmental Sustainability major with interests in ornithology, animal behavior, and ecological restoration. He loves pulling invasive honeysuckle, watching birds, and making fiber arts

E&S Lab Projects: Evaluating the impacts of intensive early-stocking on grassland birds and plants (2022), Long-term changes in brown-headed cowbird parasitism and abundance (2023), Nature’s contributions to people - evaluating the benefits of Earlham College’s Wildman Woods (2024), Interacting effects of management and drought on grassland birds and plants (2025, as alum).

After Earlham: Sylvan has been working for the Richmond Parks Department and as a paraprofessional in a school.

Nathen has a double major in Biology and Art, with a focus on ceramics.

E&S Lab Projects: Evaluating the impacts of intensive early-stocking on grassland birds and plants (2022)

After Earlham: Art residency, Haida Gwaii Museum

Jennifer is an Earlham College Biology major. Her main interests are wildlife conservation and ecology, and she enjoys bird watching, hiking traveling, and reading.

E&S Lab Projects: Evaluating the impacts of intensive early-stocking on grassland birds and plants (2022), Long-term changes in brown-headed cowbird parasitism and abundance (2023, as alum)

After Earlham: PhD in Wildlife Biology at Western Michigan University

Calamity Webster is an Environmental Sustainability Major with Biology & Geology minors.

E&S Lab Projects:‍ ‍Evaluating nature’s contributions to people at Cope Environmental Center (2022)

After Earlham:

Mary Jo (MJ) is a Business Major and Environmental Sustainability minor interested in the intersection between business and the environment.

E&S Lab Projects: Motivations and Barriers related to farmer adoption of regenerative agriculture in east-centrlal Indiana (2022-2025), Evaluating nature’s contributions to people at Cope Environmental Center (2022)

After Earlham: Fulbright Scholar

Nathan is an Earlham College Environmental Sustainability major with minors in Biology and Geology. His main interest is marine biology.

E&S Lab Projects: Evaluating nature’s contributions to people at Cope Environmental Center (2022), Recreational Behaviors & Attitudes during COVID-19 pandemic (2025)

After Earlham: Applying to graduate programs in marine biology

Hannah is an Earlham College Biology major. Her main interests are wildlife conservation and ecology. She loves watching birds, being outdoors, and playing music on a variety of instruments.

E&S Lab Projects: Nest parasites, invasive plants, and animal behavior: Analyzing nestling provisioning of threatened grassland birds (2021), Evaluating the impacts of intensive early-stocking on grassland birds and plants (2022), Long-term changes in brown-headed cowbird parasitism and abundance (2023, as alum)

After Earlham: Master’s degree in natural resources at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thea (she/they) is an Earlham College Biology major. Her interests include chicken husbandry, BTS, and fostering cats.

E&S Lab Projects: Nest parasites, invasive plants, and animal behavior - Analyzing nestling provisioning of threatened grassland birds (2021)); Expanding the conversation about LGBTQ advocacy in STEM (2021-2022); Nature’s contributions to people - evaluating the benefits of Earlham College’s Backcampus (2021)

After Earlham: Thea is now the assistant director of admissions at Earlham, helping to bring in new Biology and Environmental Sustainability majors (and others!)

Molly is an Earlham College Biology major. She enjoys birding and getting outside for a run, a hike, or to snowboard

E&S Lab Project: Nest parasites, invasive plants, and animal behavior: Analyzing nestling provisioning of threatened grassland birds (2021)

After Earlham: Molly completed a fellowship with the California Climate Action Corps in 2023. She currently works at an environmental consulting firm as a staff biologist.

Ethan is an Earlham College Biology major. His interests include ecology, conservation, and restoration. He loves climbing, running, tabletop games, and playing music.

E&S Lab Projects: Nest parasites, invasive plants, and animal behavior: Analyzing nestling provisioning of threatened grassland birds (2021); Nature’s contributions to people - evaluating the benefits of Earlham College’s Backcampus (2021).

After Earlham: working a variety of field and outdoor jobs, applying to graduate school!

Claudette is a Biology major interested in dogs, wild canids, and wildlife in general. She’s a big conservation, restoration, and wildlife monitoring person. Claudette also loves lacrosse and is obsessed with Jaime’s dogs.

E&S Lab Projects: Nest parasites, invasive plants, and animal behavior: Analyzing nestling provisioning of threatened grassland birds (2021); Nature’s contributions to people - evaluating the benefits of Earlham College’s Backcampus (2021)

After Earlham: Research Masters degree in Biology at the University of St. Andrews. Currently writing a literature review on roost builders for the same university.

Josh is an Earlham College Biology major who worked in the Grand River Grasslands in the summer of 2021. He is interested in wildlife ecology, evolutionary ecology, and field ornithology. Josh loves to go birding, play board games and video games, and watch sci-fi/fantasy shows.

E&S Lab Project: Nest parasites, invasive plants, and animal behavior: Analyzing nestling provisioning of threatened grassland birds (2021)

After Earlham: Master’s degree in Naturla Resources from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Earlham College Biology Lab Manager

Martha is an Anthropology Major interested in Indigenous knowledge and how it relates to sustainability, getting kids excited about nature, and understanding different ways of being so we can connect to all things with care and love. She is also a fiber artist whose focuses are weaving and natural dyes.

E&S Lab Project: Measuring land management behavior - a systematic review of the literature (2021-2023).

After Earlham:

Madeleine Spellman (she/xe) is an Earlham Environmental Sustainability major with minors in French, Geology, and Biology. She’s interested in permaculture, wetland restoration, Kate Bush, and social ecology. She has worked on wetland plant communities, identifying natural areas with low disturbance in GIS, and influence of affluence and restoration access in addition to the projects below.

E&S Lab Projects: Expanding the conversation about LGBTQ advocacy in STEM (2021-2022); Nature’s contributions to people - evaluating the benefits of Earlham College’s Backcampus (2021)

After Earlham: Madeleine worked on wetland restoration as a Biological Science Technician in the Indiana Dunes and is now an educator in Northwest Indiana

Maxine is an Earlham College Biology major.

E&S Lab Project: Expanding the conversation about LGBTQ advocacy in STEM (2021-2022)

After Earlham: