Graduate Students

INSTAAR scientist, Sharon Stammerjohn, and CU Boulder ENVS, Assistant Professor Cassandra Brooks , chaired an NSF funded Planning Meeting last week at SEEC on the CU Boulder's campus. The group of scientists and practitioners discussed a system-level research program in the Ross Sea, which surrounds Antarctica and is now home...

The Center for Social and Environmental Futures (C-SEF) launched earlier this year, led by ENVS assistant professor, Matt Burgess . Located within the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), the mission of C-SEF is to "conduct cutting-edge research, education, and outreach activities focused on human dimensions of environmental...

ENVS assistant professor Cassandra Brooks , will travel to Washington D.C. and accept the Edith "Jackie" Ronne Award for Antarctic Research or Exploration through the Society of Woman Geographers on October 14th. This recognition is a well-deserved honor for the research and conservation work Professor Brooks has accomplished in Antarctica...

ENVS PhD candidate, Ashby Lavelle Sachs , Professor Jill Litt , and co-authors recently published the first chapter of Ashby's dissertation on "meeting in nature together" (MINT) strategies in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. In the paper titled, " Rationale, Feasibility, and Acceptability of the Meeting...

Dr. Bailey was hailed in her nomination as 'embodying “what it means to be an equitable and inclusive scholar."' Read for further deatils.

ENVS assistant professor, Zia Mehrabi, and others are quoted in Yahoo!news, as they sound the alarm bells over the summer of extreme weather. Click here for full story.

How can science communication progress environmental conservation? The journal Nature has been tracking the effects of their Commentary section, and have found some real movement. Some of the storeis featured in this section have led to networks of scientists coming together to make real change in the world. In the...

ENVS assistant professor, Matthew Burgess, and ENVS alum Renae Marshall (current PhD student at the Bren School at UCSB) recently released an op-ed on bipartisan climate progress that discusses an "emerging bipartisan climate playbook wherein both parties tame their political vices."

Senior Virginia Weiskopf and PhD candidate Emily Nocito, both in environmental studies, head to the United Nations to research marine conservation, as the last stages of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction treaty negotiated.

Dr. Joanna Lambert, professor in the Department of Environmental Studies is among the scientists calling for a "Western Rewilding Network." In the paper published in BioScience , the scientists hypothesize that supporting wolf and beaver populations could better support important ecological processes across the West.