Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium

“Middlebury School of the Environment: What We Have Learned and What Comes Next” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Curt Gervich, Director, Middlebury School of the Environment and Associate Professor in the Center for Earth and Environmental Science at SUNY Plattsburgh.

Curt is an Associate Professor in the Center for Earth and Environmental Science at SUNY Plattsburgh where he teaches courses in environmental leadership, law and policy and sustainability, among others. Curt is trained as an environmental planner, with expertise in decision-making and leadership. His professional background includes developing habitat conservation plans in collaboration with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, training community involvement specialists at the Environmental Protection Agency in best practices for participatory planning, and serving as a researcher and planner for the International Joint Commission for Great Lakes Management’s Social, Political and Economics technical advisory group. 

Current research interests include the use of games and simulations in professional and informal adult educational settings, environmental decision making and leadership in municipal policy networks; and best practices for experiential and applied learning environments. Curt has studied, lived and worked across the United States and in Australia, Canada, China and Mongolia. At the Middlebury School of the Environment, Curt teaches the Systems Thinking Practicum and an elective on Wicked Environmental Problems.