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
Chomiak, Hine, Jones, Lizarralde, Siver, Thompson, Zimmer

Advisers for the ES MINOR
Chomiak, Dawson, Flagg, Frasure, Graesch, Hine, Jones, Lizarralde, Neely, Siver, Thompson, Turner, Zhang, Zimmer

Director

Peter Siver, Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Director of the Environmental Studies Program

Peter Siver

Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Director of the Environmental Studies Program

Limnology • Phycology • Impacts of environmental stress on lakes • Reconstructing ancient environments


Faculty

Andrew Davis, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

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

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

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, Chair of the Botany Department

Chad Jones

Associate Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Chair of the Botany Department, Suzi Oppenheimer '56 Faculty Director of the Office of Sustainability

Plant ecology • Plant succession • Invasive species • GIS and ecological modeling


Manuel Lizarralde, Associate Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Acting Director of Environmental Studies Program

Manuel Lizarralde

Associate Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Acting Director of Environmental Studies Program

Ethnobotany • Environmental anthropology


Michelle Neely, Associate Professor of English

Michelle Neely

Associate Professor of English

American literature to 1900 • American Studies • African American Literature • Environmental Humanities • Food Studies • Animal Studies • Feminist Theory


Peter Siver, Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Director of the Environmental Studies Program

Peter Siver

Charles and Sarah P. Becker '27 Professor of Botany and Environmental Studies, Director of the Environmental Studies Program

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

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, Visiting Assistant Professor of Botany (Sustainable Agriculture), Goodwin Visiting Scholar in Botany

Eric Vukicevich

Visiting Assistant Professor of Botany (Sustainable Agriculture), Goodwin Visiting Scholar in Botany

Soil ecology • Organic cropping systems • Pest management



Staff

Liz Smith

Academic Department Assistant

Associated Faculty

William Frasure, Lucretia L. Allyn Professor of Government and International Relations

William Frasure

Lucretia L. Allyn Professor of Government and International Relations

United States politics • Environmental policy and law • Law and public policy


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

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 Acting Chair of the Philosophy Department (AY20-21)

Derek Turner

Class of '43 Professor of Philosophy, Karla Heurich Harrison '28 Director of the Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment Acting Chair of the Philosophy Department (AY20-21)

Philosophy of science • Philosophy of biology • Environmental philosophy


R. Scott Warren, Jean C. Tempel '65 Professor Emeritus of Botany

R. Scott Warren

Jean C. Tempel '65 Professor Emeritus of Botany

New England tidal marshes