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Katie Chapman will be entering her second fellowship year. During her first year, she was placed on Swan's Island to help move forward the wind-energy project, collaborating with the Fox Islands Electric Cooperative on Vinalhaven. This project moved forward very quickly, and Vinalhaven is now poised to site the new turbines. During this second fellowship year, Katie will work out of the Island Institute's Rockland office, focusing on the environmental impact of the Fox Islands wind project.
Katie was a Spanish major, recently graduating from Bowdoin College. She is an All-American swimmer who holds Bowdoin Swimming Records in five events. An environmental activist and member of Bowdoin Evergreens, Cool Energy NOW and Sustainable Bowdoin, she helped coordinate Solarfest, an annual solar powered reggae concert and festival, worked on campus recycling efforts and events, coordinated efforts to make Brunswick, Maine a "Cool Community," and campaigned to encourage Bowdoin to buy 100% clean energy, a goal which was achieved in July, 2006. Katie served as a bioscience technician intern with the Environmental Protection Agency on a study of genomic mutations within grass species in Eastern Oregon, and interned with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a data technician for a study on fish catch data along the Pacific Coast. Katie is a native of Newport, Oregon.
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