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“Identifying & responding to the health impacts of climate change in Vermont”  Jared Ulmer, MPH, AICP, Climate & Health Program Coordinator Vermont Department of Health

Forest Fragmentation: A Fuzzy Look at a Clear-Cut Problem Amy Frazier, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University Forest fragmentation is an on-going threat in forest communities, especially in the Eastern U.S. where the prevailing pattern of dispersed, low intensity development penetrates intact forest, increasing the amount of wildland urban interface (WUI). Most methods to measure forest fragmentation rely on thematic land cover maps, but these maps typically ignore the gradient nature of forests and other land covers.

What is Safe? ES Core Panel featuring: Peter Ryan, Professor of Geology, Rebecca Kneale Gould, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies Co-chair: Philosophy, Religion, and the Environment Focus, Christopher McGrory Klyza, Stafford Professor of Public Policy, Political Science and Environmental Studies. In this Fall’s core faculty colloquium, we will examine the concept of “safety” from a number of perspectives. How do we translate the abstract concept of safety into actual, on-the-ground policy?

Soil and forest resources in Sub-Saharan Africa Julia Berazneva, Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College Most of the world’s poorest billion people live in rural areas, where their livelihoods depend directly on natural capital: soils, forests, and waterways. While these resources are often renewable, overuse or mismanagement leads to their depletion and deterioration. Soil degradation, overfishing and overgrazing, deforestation, and loss of biodiversity are widespread.

Katharine North ‘05, Environmental Hydrogeologist Peter Ryan, Professor of Geology, Interim Director of Environmental Studies Program Working in a Central Asian oil field: Insights from an environmental scientist

Sierra Crane-Murdoch ‘09.5 and Chad Stevens Boom & Bust: Documenting human stories on the front lines of energy extraction Join filmmaker Chad A. Stevens and writer Sierra Crane-Murdoch ’09.5 in a conversation about their work documenting the prolonged impacts of energy extraction on American communities. Stevens’ recent film, Overburden, is an intimate portrait of a small community in Appalachia struggling with the century-old mono-economy of coal.

ENVS 0401 - Senior Seminar Presentations

Dalal Al-Abdulrazzak ‘07, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia Mez Baker-Medard, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies International Marine Conservation: Problems, Practices and Progress

Lydia Beaudrot ‘05, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan Steve Trombulak, Professor of Environmental and Biosphere Studies, Director of Sciences, and Director of the Middlebury School of the Environment Conservation Biology: Looking forward with an eye on the rearview mirror Conservation Biology emerged as a professional discipline in 1985, the year Trombulak arrived at Middlebury College as a new assistant professor.

Amy Horner Hanley ‘97, Office of the Solicitor, Environmental Restoration Branch, US Department of the Interior Chris McGrory Klyza, Stafford Professor of Public Policy, Political Science and Environmental Studies Birds, Turtles, Econ & Law: Adventures in the Federal Government Amy and Chris will discuss Amy’s career path Middlebury through her current position in the Department of the Interior. We will focus on a few specific policy cases, as well as the ups and downs of working for the federal government.