It’s now common for the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services to issue advisories each summer, warning swimmers of bacterial blooms along Northeastern beaches.
Cyanobacteria, which is also known as blue-green algae, has become prevalent throughout the Northeast. Now researchers from Dartmouth, University of New Hampshire, and the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies are collaborating with the Lake Sunapee Protective Association to find out why.
David Lutz, a...
[more]Tyler Pavlowich has spent much of the last five years in villages along the northwest coast of the Dominican Republic, studying the interplay of fishing practices, the health of the area’s coral reefs, and the local economy.
Working closely with local fishermen, he has concluded that how they fish and what they catch can make a big difference to the coral reefs. “It isn’t surprising, given their extensiveness and...
[more]ENVS major Oliver Edelson '18 co-authored a peer-reviewed article in Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems with Andrea D. Basche titled "Improving water resilience with more perenially based agriculture." Dr. Basche is an agroecology scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, where Oliver interned and conducted research during an off-term in 17W.
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[more]Elizabeth Wilson, a leading scholar who works at the intersection of energy, technology, law, business, and policy at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, has been appointed the inaugural director of the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, President Phil Hanlon ’77 and Provost Carolyn Dever announced today.
Wilson, who will also hold the rank of professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth, will...
[more]Environmental Studies major Julian Marcu '18 is featured in "A Deeper Shade of Green:" Julian shares his thoughts on sustainability, energy & business, his study abroad program in Copenhagen, and his trip to CERA Week in Texas. Read about how Julian has cut his own trail here.
On Saturday, April 22, Dickey Center Associate Director for Programs and Research Melody Brown Burkins, PhD, spoke to a crowd of thousands at the New Hampshire statehouse in Concord about the connection between facts and government policy.
“We’re standing up not only for science but good government,” said Burkins, speaking at the March for Science, a worldwide movement to demonstrate support for science and its importance to...
[more]“Rising from the center of the southeastern Utah landscape and visible from every direction are twin buttes so distinctive that in each of the native languages of the region their name is the same: Hoon’Naqvut, Shash Jáa, Kwiyagatu Nukavachi, Ansh An Lashokdiwe, or ‘Bears Ears.’ For hundreds of generations, native peoples lived in the surrounding deep sandstone canyons, desert mesas … one of the densest and most significant cultural...
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