Environmental Studies

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.

Josh Howe ‘02, Assistant Professor, History and Environmental Studies, Reed College Kathy Morse- John C. Elder Prof of Environmental Studies; Prof of History Telling Stories about CO2: History, Science, and the Politics of Climate Change Josh Howe and Kathy Morse will explore how environmental studies and the discipline of history can productively contribute to the climate change conversation, and what the history of global warming itself can tell us about the way forward.

Bobby Levine ‘08, CEO of Digested Organics and Chief Science Officer of Algal Scientific Jon Isham- Professor of Economics; Director, Center for Social Entrepreneurship Life after Middlebury: An Entrepreneur’s Quest Middlebury prepared me well as a thinker and leader, but I graduated having never really heard the word entrepreneur. In this brief talk, I will discuss how I went from oblivious to the start-up world to a founding member of two fast-growing companies that have products and services aimed at delivering environmental benefits combined with financial savings for our customers.

Lila Buckley ‘04, Senior Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development Mike Sheridan- Associate Professor of Anthropology What does a liberal arts approach to sustainable development look like? A conversation between Lila Buckley ’04 and Professor Mike Sheridan will explore Lila’s career path in sustainable development work, starting with her coursework and experiences at Middlebury.

Susannah Drake FASLA, ASLA Principal DLANDStudio Ashar Nelson ‘90- Principal, Vermont Integrated Architecture, AIA, LEED AP Andrea Murray- Principal, Vermont Integrated Architecture, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB Perspectives on the Designed Environment Andrea, Ashar, and Susannah will present examples of recent work and discuss their efforts in using design to inspire people to care more about our built and natural environments.

Pieter Broucke, Director of the Arts, Professor of History of Art and Architecture Public Art and the Environment: Herman de Vries’ Wintergräser at Franklin Environmental Center Middlebury’s public art program marks 50 Years of Environmental Education and Leadership with a work of art by Herman de Vries, the 83 year old Dutch artist who has been making environmental art for as long as Middlebury’s Environmental Studies Program has been in existence.

Rebecca Gould, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies Chris Klyza, Stafford Professor of Public Policy, Political Science and Environmental Studies Marc Lapin, Associate in Science Instruction in Environmental Studies FlashBack FlashForward: Environmental Studies 1965 and 50 years on

Lebanon’s Shouf Biosphere Reserve Transition Zone: Sport Hunters and a Protected Area Robert Greeley, Visiting Instructor in Arabic, Middlebury College Protected areas have undergone a powerful and sustained social critique, however, very little of this it addresses biosphere reserves and only a small fraction addresses the zoning practices of biosphere reserves. This talk is based on months of interviews and participant observation with biosphere personnel, police, politicians, Shouf residents and hunters in the transition zone of the Shouf Biosphere reserve.