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Patrick Yellin was born in Dover, Delaware, and moved to Germany when he was 15 months. He had no vocabulary until he was 2½, when, like a vacuum, he absorbed sign language (to date, he hasn’t stopped “talking”.) At age five, he moved to Sacramento, but visited his family in southern Germany almost every year since. Patrick graduated from UC Davis in 2003 with a B.S. (High Honors) in Environmental and Resources Science and a B.A. (Honors) in German. He spent one year abroad, in Lancaster, England, where he took pictures of everything in sight and hiked (and slogged) through the peat bogs of Northern England, Scotland and Wales. While at UC Davis, he worked in the Aquatic Toxicology Lab, assisting with statewide water quality projects. In his first year at the Bren School, he completed a 6-month habitat restoration internship at Arroyo Hondo Preserve in Santa Barbara. After receiving an extensive background in science, Patrick decided to pursue a newfound interest in corporate environmental management. His academic interests include water quality, ecological restoration, land use and corporate environmental responsibility. This summer, he will be interning in the Agricultural Division of the EPA Headquarters, in Washington, D.C. A keen outdoorsman, he enjoys hardcore hiking and is especially proud of climbing Mt. Whitney and all four Alpine nations. He also enjoys traveling, skiing, biking and soccer and snowshoeing. When he isn’t doing any of these things, he likes to sit back and enjoy a good book and a cold beer. The personal connection Patrick has with this project is the vivid
eye-stinging and allergic memories of rice farmers burning the
supposedly-useless rice stalks every fall in the Sacramento Valley. |
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