Maine Voices: Time to remove the Kesslen, Dane Perkins and Twine Mills dams
Take out these three Mousam River dams, says an environmentalist and lifelong Maine resident.
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ES Program highlighted in Best College.com survey, coming in as the third greenest school
BestColleges.com recently published its list of the 39 Greenest Universities and Colby ranks number 3! An excerpt from their ranking is below.
Another college to earn total carbon neutrality, the influence of conservation and sustainability best practices can be seen …
Prof. Denise Bruesewitz to attend catchment science conference
Gordon Research Conference: Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology & Geochemistry
Observing, predicting, and understanding the consequences and feedbacks of environmental thresholds are crucial for predicting future changes in catchment systems across interacting hydrological, biological and geochemical processes. This GRC …
Prof. Loren McClenachan and students article published in Ecology and Society
Social benefits of restoring historical ecosystems and fisheries: alewives in Maine
Prof. Loren McClenachan, Caroline Keavney ’15, and Samantha Lovell ’16
Guillermo Sapaj ‘J15 Awarded Projects for Peace Grant
PROJECTS FOR PEACE
Guillermo Sapaj ’15 won a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant to embark on peace-building missions this summer in Chile.
Sapaj’s project, “Building Climate Resilience: Empowering Children in Community-Based Conservation,” aims to promote peace in Chile’s drought-ridden Aconcagua …
ES Program Hires Faculty Fellow in Environmental Studies
Bill McDowell grew up in New Hampshire and earned his bachelor’s degree in Biology from Williams College. While at Williams, Bill attended the Williams Mystic program where Dr. Jim Carlton first got him interested in understanding the impacts of invasive …
Colby Sustainability Ranking Among World’s Highest
When it comes to assessing sustainability practices, STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System) is the gold standard, and in the most recent STARS survey, Colby rated gold. The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) uses …
Visiting Faculty Fellow Published in Environmental Science and Policy journal
Prof. Divya Gupta, a visiting Faculty Fellow in Environmental Studies, co-authored an article, Adaptive institutions in social-ecological systems governance: A synthesis framework, recently published in Environmental Science and Policy journal. The article synthesizes studies on adaptive institutions and developes a …
Prof. Bruesewitz Publishes in Limnology and Oceanography
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Denise Bruesewitz coauthored an article, “Under-Ice Thermal Stratification Dynamics of a Large, Deep Lake Revealed by High-Frequency Data,” published in Limnology and Oceanography in 2014. The official journal of the Association for the Sciences of …
Prof. McClenachan Comments on Ocean Health Analysis in New York Times
Malin L. Pinsky, a marine biologist at Rutgers University, and Douglas J. McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and other scientists analyzed the oceans’ health by examining data from hundreds of different sources including findings in …