Mellon Environmental Postdoctoral Program
The Mellon Environmental Post-Doctoral Scholars (MEPS) program supports the annual hire of one post-doctoral-scholar (for a 2-year term) to support teaching, research, and advising in the Environmental Science & Policy (ENSP) program. The post-doctoral scholar is co-advised by two faculty members from different departments and works on a research project that bridges traditional disciplinary divides, in addition to offering a total of two courses in their disciplinary area and organizing the Spring ENSP 250 seminar series. The scholar’s home department- and thus field of expertise- rotates annually among the areas (Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities). The MEPS program was initiated by a 2007 grant to the College that also provided start-up funding for the Center for Geospatial Analysis, in addition to funding for MEPS.
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Postdoctoral Program Previous Participants and Career Outcomes |
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Name |
Program Years |
Current Status |
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Dr. Yuehan Lu
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2008 - 2010 |
Tenured associate Professor at University of Alabama; ~20 publications since her time as Mellon post-doc, including 4 with W&M mentors. Teacher/scholar in environmental geochemistry. |
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Dr. Christopher Marcoux
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2009 – 2011 |
Director of Analytics at Virginia Commonwealth University; former Assistant Prof of Political Science at DePauw University |
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Dr. Jes Therkelsen
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2010 - 2012 |
Tenured Associate Professor of Media, Communications and Journalism, Fresno State. Won Cal-State Fresno Provost’s Award for Promising New Faculty 2015. |
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Dr. Matt Saxton
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2011 - 2013 |
Assistant Professor in Biology at Miami University, FL; formerly at University of Georgia as Managing Director for the ECOGIG project to track the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon spill on the biogeochemistry of the Gulf of Mexico |
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Dr. Marco Millones
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2012 - 2014 |
Associate Professor of Geography at University of Mary Washington |
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Dr. Dorothy Ibes
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2013 - 2015 |
Senior Lecturer in the ENSP Department at W&M |
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Dr. Dana Moseley
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2014 - 2016 |
Assistant professor of Biology, tenure track position at James Madison University. |
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Dr. Mark Cooper
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2015 - 2017 |
Assistant professor, tenure track position in Human Ecology at UC-Davis |
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Dr. Alan Roe
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2016 - 2018 |
History teacher at Episcopal High School; formerly Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola University Maryland and West Virginia University |
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Dr. Jack Boyle |
2017 - 2019 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology at University of Mary in Bismarck, ND; formerly a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University |
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Dr. Yana Jin |
2018-2020 |
Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics at Peking University; formerly a research fellow at the Environmental Defense Fund |
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Dr. Abigail Buffington |
2019-2021 |
Archeologist at PaleoWest; formerly a Visiting Assistant Professor at William & Mary |
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Dr. Richard Vachula |
2020-2022 |
Assistant Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Auburn University |
| Dr. Jessica Jenkins | 2021-2023 | Assistant Professor at Flagler College |
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Dr. Lidia Ponce de la Vega |
2022-2024 |
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Dr. Na Yu |
2023-2025 | |
