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	COA Déjà Vu Darron Collins is President of College of the Atlantic. He’s also a graduate from the class of 1992. And now Darron is back home, at COA.

	sustainable development and me, at twenty I am in Brazil with a class of American students in Santarem. The class is about the sociology of sustainable development and we've been talking with different groups of people, exploring the area, and helping with the construction of a satellite site for a local youth organization.

	Ruminations and Dispatches Reflections, ruminations, and observations from my time as a Fulbright Lecturer in Rwanda..

The Five Friends, our newest boat under construction, is designed for the growing demands of our marine program. It will contain a cabin quiet enough for lectures and space for more than twenty students, a typical class size at COA. Its seaworthy construction will extend the school’s research period into early spring and late fall, providing more students and faculty access to our island research facilities. The Five Friends is replacing the school’s previous research vessel, the Indigo, and is scheduled to be completed in June 2011.

Blake Davis is presently embarked on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship after graduating with a BA from College of the Atlantic in 2011. During this year of travel he is exploring fly fishing cultures in Australia, India, Costa Rica, and wherever else the fish take him. In college his studies focused on writing and journalism, and he was awarded by the Maine Press Association for his reporting on education in 2010.

	Earth in Brackets It is a concept, a documentary, and a journal. Its purpose is to shed light on the inner workings of international politics, specifically United Nations negotiations.

	Humjournal An independent, online, student-run and created publication, posting articles, student work, ride board, etc.

My name is Lauren. I am a human ecologist. I love life and to life I bring every ounce of passion in my soul to run, play, learn, explore, and change the world.

My latest adventure will take me to a whole mess of countries on a Watson Fellowship.

Besides that I love dark chocolate, dancing, being with loved ones, discovering new music and foods, hugs, and smiles.

	Meg Trau Gardening in the Mountains - Yo! I’m Meg Trau. I just finished my sophomore year at College of the Atlantic. Now I’m leaving the Atlantic for the Alleghenies — for 10 weeks follow my internship adventures at Spruce Knob Mountain Center. I’ll be getting dirt under my nails, collecting plants, and loving the mountains.

Explorations in River Deltas and Coastal Wetlands.
For the next twelve months I will be traveling to river deltas around the world as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. I am a human ecologist who has worked with plants, law makers, loggers, stone flies, and rivers in Coastal Maine; children, salt marshes, fishermen, land trusts, and Quakers in Southern New Jersey; and tortoises in the Mojave desert. During my year abroad I will be combining these interests and experiences by living in and meeting researchers, managers, and community members in the Mackenzie river delta, Venetian lagoon, Dutch delta, Ganges/Brahmaputra river deltas, and the Mekong river delta.

	Julia De Santis Julia De Santis is a student at College of the Atlantic. She likes to tell stories, and she tries to focus on the beauty.

	COA Development Blog This is COA’s development blog. We’re going to try to keep a narrative record of events, gifts, stories from friends, alumni news, new programs, and anything philanthropy related. So much to celebrate! So many people to thank! So much work yet to do! Where’s the coffee?

	Cora Lewicki Cora in Ghana - Senior Cora Lewicki's visits Ghana this summer.

Recently finished a great semester with International Honors Program (Health and Community Program). I'm in Viet Nam for a few more months doing an internship working with the consulting firm that has USAID's Health Policy Initiative contract for Viet Nam. If you know me and are curious what I've been up to, or if you are curious about IHP, study abroad, public health, Tanzania or Viet Nam, feel free to check out my blog.

Professor of Physics and Mathematics and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. I am a native of New York City, attended Carleton College in Minnesota and received my Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of California, Davis. Between college and grad school I taught high school physics and math in Chattanooga, TN, for two years. At COA I teach a wide range of physics and math classes in addition to classes that explore connections between science and politics. My research interests are in the fields of chaos and complexity; more recently I have begun a project using mathematical and computational models to attempt to understand some aspects of racial segregation in U.S. cities.

My project is an extension of the independent study this winter term, 2010, through which I am exploring the historical apple trade between Maine and England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Along with this economic aspect of apples, I am looking at the preservation of heritage apple varieties in Maine, what changed with the beginning of the commercial apple industry, and where, how, and why people are working to preserve these varieties.

	Luka Negoita A blog about plants and experiences learning about, identifying, and using them.

	Emily Troutman Who We Are/How We Live - Emily is an alumna writer and photographer living in Washington, D.C.

	Alicia Hynes One crazy Mainer, traveling in Austria.

A College of the Atlantic course, co-hosted by the Organic Research Centre (ORC) in the UK and the University of Kassel's (UoK) Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences in Germany, following grains through the food system in the UK and Germany.
11 students from COA and UoK will spend the month of August learning about grains and visiting farms, mills, research stations, bakeries and other sites both in the UK and in Germany. The course is part of our Trans-Atlantic Partnership in Sustainable Food Systems, made possible through the support of the Partridge Foundation.

	Neil Oculi, Zimmerman Cardona, and Andrew Louw Propogating Peace - A Kathryn W. Davis Project for Peace in St Lucia's Mabouya Valley.

Avoiding the unmanageable and managing the unavoidable...

A 2007 graduate of COA and recipient of the prestigious Watson Fellowship, Juan Pablo Hoffmaister is spending a year visiting and collaborating in different projects around the world dealing with adaptation to climate change in Fiji, Viet Nam, Thailand, India, Maldives, and Namibia. His trip ends in Germany, where he will present his findings to a meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. While at COA, Juan worked for SustainUS, the US Network of Youth for Sustainable Development, and for United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) serving as North American representative on the Youth Advisory Council.

	Cory Whitney Sympathetic Disengaged Curiosity I grew up in Maine and recently finished the MSc. in Sustainable International Agriculture in Germany. I now work with NGOs on various sustainability projects in SE Asia.

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