Environmental Studies

“Metropolitan Foodsheds: A Resilient Solution to the Climate Change Challenge?” by Laura Lengnick, Owner and Principal, Cultivating Resilience, LLC and Vice President of Resilience, Climate Optimize, Inc.

“Lions, Wolves, and Bears, Oh My! Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Conservation Advocacy in the Northern Rockies” by Tim Stevens, Montana Fund Advisor, the Kendeda Fund.

This talk will examine the evolution of place-based conservation advocacy in the Greater Yellowstone and Crown of the Continent Ecosystems and reflect on lessons learned from successful and not so successful efforts to protect grizzly bears, wolves and the largest remaining wildlands in the lower 48.

“Mind the Gap Link: Integrating urban migrants and their hometown ties into conservation policy in Madagascar” by Laura M. Tilghman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Plymouth State University.

“Photography and Environmental Activism: Highlights from Land and Lens” by Kirsten Hoving, Professor of Art History, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Middlebury College.

From Ansel Adams’ photographs of Yosemite to James Balog’s images of diminishing glaciers, photographs have been powerful tools to argue for protecting the environment. Selected photographs from the Middlebury College Museum of Art exhibition, Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment will be discussed in the context of environmental activism.

“Environment and Power in the Soviet Arctic” by Andy Bruno, Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Faculty Associate in Environmental Studies, Northern Illinois University.

ENVS 0401 SENIOR SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

ENVS 0401 SENIOR SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

“Environmental Health in the Arctic: Perfluoroalkyl contaminants and thyroid function in a remote population of Alaska Natives” by Sam Byrne, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, St. Lawrence University

“Expressway to (In)equity: Environmental Justice, Community Engagement & Urban Redevelopment” by Lemir Teron, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry.

“Studying the Little Things That Run the World to Understand Biodiversity in a Changing World” by Nathan Sanders, Director of the Environmental Program, University of Vermont.

At any one time, there are probably more ants crawling around on the planet than there are birds that have ever flown through the sky. But what do they do? And how is climate change affecting them and all that they do?

Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program and the Biology Department