Jane Dawson
Virginia Eason Weinmann '51 Professor of Government and Environmental Studies
International environmental justice • International environmental politics • Comparative environmental activism and politics
Environmental studies is an interdisciplinary program that combines natural science and social science and examines local, regional, national and international environmental problems in a holistic manner.
There are two tracks to the major: the natural science sequence and the social science sequence.
Advisers for the ES Social Science Track MAJOR
Dawson, Flagg, Frasure, Graesch, Lizarralde, Neely, Turner, Zhang
Advisers for the ES Natural Science Track MAJOR
Bernhard, Chomiak, Hine, Jones, Lizarralde, McMahon, Rosa, Siver, Thompson, Vukicevich, Zimmer,
Advisers for the ES MINOR
Bernhard, Chomiak, Dawson, Flagg, Frasure, Graesch, Hine, Jones, Lizarralde, McMahon, Neely, Rosa, Siver, Thompson, Turner, Vukicevich, Zhang, Zimmer
Peter Siver
Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies
Limnology • Phycology • Impacts of environmental stress on lakes • Reconstructing ancient environments
Anne Bernhard
Katharine Blunt Professor of Biology
Microbial ecology of estuaries and salt marshes • Community ecology and population dynamics of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria
Andrew Davis
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Environmental studies • Environmental law and policy • Marine pollution
Jane Dawson
Virginia Eason Weinmann '51 Professor of Government and Environmental Studies
International environmental justice • International environmental politics • Comparative environmental activism and politics
Julia A. Flagg
Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies
Environmental sociology • Climate change • Costa Rica • Disasters • Human ecology
Chad Jones
Associate Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies
Plant ecology • Plant succession • Invasive species • GIS and ecological modeling
Manuel Lizarralde
Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies
Ethnobotany • Environmental anthropology
Michelle Neely
Associate Professor of English,, Director of American Studies
American literature to 1900 • American Studies • African American Literature • Environmental Humanities • Food Studies • Animal Studies • Feminist Theory
Maria Rosa
George & Carol Milne Assistant Professor of Biology
Marine Biology & Ecology • Oceanography • Marine Sciences
Peter Siver
Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies
Limnology • Phycology • Impacts of environmental stress on lakes • Reconstructing ancient environments
Douglas M. Thompson
Rosemary Park Professor of Geoscience and Environmental Studies , Suzi Oppenheimer '56 Faculty Director of the Office of Sustainability
Geomorphology • Hydrology • Hazards • Geology • Geography • Civil engineering
Eric Vukicevich
Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Assistant Professor of Botany (Sustainable Agriculture)
Soil ecology • Organic cropping systems • Pest management
Pamela Hine
Senior Lecturer of Botany
Environmental education • Plant ecology • Tidal marsh ecology • Pollination ecology
David Patton
Joanne Toor Cummings '50 Professor of Government and International Relations
Comparative politics • European politics • European Union • Federal Republic of Germany
Derek Turner
Class of '43 Professor of Philosophy, Karla Heurich Harrison '28 Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment
Philosophy of science • Philosophy of biology • Environmental philosophy
