HBRF envisions YVoS
The Young Voices of Science (YVoS) program is a free science communication training program for environmental students, envisioned and launched by the Hubbard Brook…
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Outreach Projects
Francesca LoPresti – Fall 2025
Francesca LoPresti (she/her) is a recent graduate from Macalester College where she majored in Environmental Studies, Community, and Global Health, and minored in chemistry…
Madeleine Burns – Fall 2025
Madeleine Burns (she/her) is a PhD student at Dartmouth College where she studies climate science with a focus on large-scale hydrological changes in the…
Adrianna Drindak – Fall 2025
Adrianna Drindak (she/her) is a senior at Dartmouth College, where she majors in Earth Science and minors in environmental studies. Science has been a…
Raven Harrison – Fall 2025
Raven Harrison earned her bachelor’s degree in marine biology and biotechnology and is a member of Minorities in Shark Sciences through their ICONIC Oceans…
Valeria Perez Rivera – Fall 2025
Valeria Perez Rivera earned her bachelor’s degree in Geology from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. She is currently a master’s student in the…
Vicente Aránguiz – Fall 2025
Vicente Aránguiz recently earned his Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences and is currently completing additional requirements for a degree in Biology at the University…
Yetunde Rotimi – Fall 2025
Yetunde “Diamond” Rotimi is currently a PhD candidate at Washington State University in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences. Her research focuses on ecological conservation…
Nesya Sloane – Fall 2025
Nesya Sloane is a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder, studying the chemistry of solid-state lithium ion batteries. As a chemist who…
Anna Dubey – Fall 2025
Anna Dubey (she/her) is a recent graduate from Brown University where she studied ecology, evolution, and organismal biology with Dr. John Witman. She now…
Bela Starinchak – Fall 2025
Bela Starinchak is an early career research ecologist, working in the Brando Lab at the Yale School of the Environment, with a role very…
Khrista Nicholas – Fall 2025
Khrista Nicholas is a Masters student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, studying Oceanography, specifically trends in transport of the Agulhas Current over the…
Alyssa Tsukada – Fall 2025
Alyssa Tsukada is a PhD student at the University of Rhode Island, studying Biological Oceanography. Her research focuses on phytoplankton ecology with an emphasis…
Young Voices of Science Program Origin Story
Young Voices of Science Origin Story
-Origin Story written by Anthea Lavallee, HBRF Executive Director- In August 2019, HBRF Executive Director, Anthea Lavallee, organized a science briefing for U.S. Congresswoman…
Outreach Events
Leslie Traqueña – Fall 2024
byLeslie Traqueña is a Master’s student in Microbiology at the University of Santo Tomas. Her research focuses on the biodiversity distribution of marine-sediment-derived fungi…
HBRF’s The Moss Story Hour Speaker
byDaouda Njie (YVoS Fall 2020) was featured as one of the speakers in HBRF’s The Moss Story Hour. To hear Douada’s story and the…
Meeting with US. Senator Maggie Hassan Staff leads to Policy Discussion
byEva Legge (YVoS Spring 2021) met with U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan’s staff to discuss science-based climate and energy policy in the American Jobs Plan….
Virtual Sustainable Forestry Panel, hosted by Climate Action NH
byElizabeth Jamison (YVoS Fall 2020) acted as a panelist at a virtual event on sustainable forestry hosted by Climate Action NH. Follow the link…
Climate and Clean Energy Youth Forum, co-hosted by HBRF
byCatalina Meija (YVoS Fall 2020), Tyler Edwards (YVoS Fall 2020), Stephen Peters-Collaer (YVoS Fall 2020), and Morgan Irons (YVoS Spring 2021) participated as student…
