Our alumni work around the country and the world in a wide variety of jobs, from conservation science to education to urban planning. Linking them all is a deep commitment to helping the Earth's inhabitants — humans and other animals, plants, fungi, microbes — live together sustainably and in mutually beneficial ways. Click through career profiles with the gray arrow below to get an idea of where the Field Naturalist Program propels its graduates.
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Sean Beckett '17
Sean works as the Staff Naturalist at North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier, Vermont, where he connects new audiences to nature while advancing the expertise of those who already have a lifelong interest. A "typical" week may include a black ash basketry course led by Abenaki weavers, an adventure to pick and press feral apples in an abandoned 19th-century orchard, or a guest lecture on tropical hummingbirds. Sean directs Biodiversity University, a field seminar series, and coordinates NBNC's bird banding and amphibian migration monitoring programs. In the shoulder seasons, he guides NBNC's Adventures Afar excursions to ecotourism destinations around the world.
