As an undergraduate, Alisa White ’17 conducted a survey of 992 Vermont forest landowners to assess their willingness to join a carbon offset program and generate carbon offsets from their forest land. Carbon offsets allow individuals and companies to offset their carbon footprints by investing in environmental projects around the world.
Her senior thesis was based on the survey, the results of which—yes, the landowners were interested—were reported in a recent issue of the journal...
[more]The Ivy League and the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) today announced the winners of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup, which honors the Ivy League Football Players of the Year, and Dartmouth cornerback Isiah Swann earned the defensive honor.
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[more]Aimee Barnes ’04 is awarded the Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) Initiative 2018 Government Award (Mid-Career). The U.S. C3E Awards recognize mid-career women who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and accomplishments in clean energy.
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"Beyond Panaceas in Fisheries Governance"
Professors D.G. Webster, Michael Cox, Ross Virginia and Rich Howarth
Thursday, November 1
4:30 – 5:30
Steele 006
Join us for light refreshments before the talk at 4:00 pm.
People often try to solve environmental problems by using the same simplistic and ineffective solutions. This panel investigates the mindset that leads to the spread and persistence of such panaceas and describes a method to...
[more]The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society is partnering with the Revers Center for Energy at the Tuck School of Business, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Dartmouth Office of Sustainability to offer an eight-week seminar series this fall called “...
[more]Assistant Professor – Agroecology
Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College
The Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth seeks applicants for a tenure-track assistant professorship in the field of agroecology. The successful candidate will have a strong foundation in ecological science and its applications in the area of sustainable agriculture. In addition, the ideal candidate will take an interdisciplinary approach that...
[more]Ask just about any human and they’ll tell you that mosquitoes are pests we’d be better off without, especially since some mosquitoes carry deadly diseases. Even many scientists agree: A 2010 article in the journal Nature concluded that a world without mosquitoes would be less itchy and less deadly for us, with few drawbacks for other species, outside...
[more]A team of researchers lead by Research Assitant Professor Dave Lutz is sampling lakes across the Northeast this week as part of efforts to better understand what’s causing cyanobacteria blooms.
The blooms have become common in other parts of the country, including the Midwest, and are starting to pop up locally in New Hampshire and surrounding states. Scientists are unsure what’s driving the change.
The effort this week is something of a lake-sampling marathon....
[more]College students can learn a lot by leaving campus and helping people whose homes are in need of repair, says Terry Osborne, a senior lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program and the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric who every spring teaches a course that gives his class an opportunity to do just that.
It’s...
[more]On a chilly gray spring afternoon, about a dozen students stand in a circle along the banks of the Connecticut River at the College’s organic farm. In the middle of the circle, a moose hide, still covered in fur, is draped over a makeshift sawhorse.
This is an outdoor classroom for a course called “Encountering Forests,” taught by Nicholas Reo, assistant professor of environmental studies and Native American Studies....
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