Environmental Studies

Shua Group (NY/NH) and the Dance Company of Middlebury present two interactive installations that visitors can discover on campus. Find them, then jump into a pool of plastic, or listen to the melting of an ice sculpture. Through drastically different aesthetics and experiences, the installations offer metaphors for our relationship with environment. Sponsored by the Enviornmental Studeies and Dance programs and Middlebury College Museum of Art as part of the Celebration of 50 Years of Enviornmental Education and Leadership at Middlebury.

Shua Group (NY/NH) and the Dance Company of Middlebury present two interactive installations that visitors can discover on campus. Find them, then jump into a pool of plastic, or listen to the melting of an ice sculpture. Through drastically different aesthetics and experiences, the installations offer metaphors for our relationship with environment. Sponsored by the Enviornmental Studeies and Dance programs and Middlebury College Museum of Art as part of the Celebration of 50 Years of Enviornmental Education and Leadership at Middlebury.

Maree ReMalia and her Pittsburgh-based collaborators, The Drop Ins, are melding their creative fields spanning dance, sound, visual art, photography, and film to develop movement scores and interactive installations that invite the community to engage in playful, creative ways alongside them to offer a means of expressing and interacting through various mediums while actively engaging questions of resiliency, connectivity, and sustainable well-being. The scores and installations are intended to be inclusive for a wide range of participants to “drop in”.

Come learn about a brand-new Feb Break educational opportunity investigating the power dynamics that surround Guatemala’s complex food system with the Origins of Food project.

“We Lost Our Sea Ice, Now What?” by Ross Lieb-Lappen ‘07, who is teaching the Winter Term course ENVS 110 – Ice Cores: By Land and by Sea. Ross Lieb-Lappen earned a degree in environmental studies and chemistry. During his first year at Middlebury, he was the founder of the Relay For Life at the College, which has cumulatively raised over $1.5 million for cancer research and support services. After obtaining a M.S. in mathematics from the University of Vermont, he completed a Ph.D. in Engineering at Dartmouth College studying the microstructure of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice.

Lecture by Helena Wong

How should Asians and Asian Americans be relating to social movements of our time like Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, and Not1More? How are grassroots organizers in Asian communities around the country pushing back against gentrification, discriminatory policing, environmental racism, and what happens when communities are hit with (un)natural disasters? How do we understand what is happening in China and bring it back to what it means to organize with a racial and gender justice lens here in the US?

Dr. Gregory Trencher, Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Science and Policy at Clark University, will discuss Innovative Strategies towards a Low-Carbon Society in Japan.

ENVS 0401 Senior Seminar Presentations

ENVS 0401 Senior Seminar Presentations

Cultural Ecosystem Services: How do you measure that?

Rachelle Gould, Assistant Professor, University of Vermont, Environmental Program, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources